[SalesForce] How to format today’s date in this format

How can we format today's date in the following date/time format?

2015-04-29T06:17:44.000-07:00

it represents yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:sss-UTC

any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

You can use the DateTime.format(String) method and a Java SimpleDateFormat as the parameter.

System.debug(Datetime.now().format('yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ'));

gives:

2015-05-12T15:43:36.358-0700

This will be for the current users local time zone. Note:

"If the time zone cannot be determined, GMT is used."

If you want more control over the timezone you can use the DateTime.format(String, String) method and specify the TimeZone.

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[SalesForce] Date formatting issue in Apex

you can achieve it by replacing the Z with XXX.

Datetime sdf = Datetime.now();

system.debug(sdf.format('yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX'));

The result was:

2015-05-20T20:28:23.203+02:00

This is documented here

[SalesForce] Need to convert date format in apex

You could try extracting the date part in a String variable and then create a new instance of Date with your format.

String ExtractedDate = '2015-07-27';

list<String> lstSplitDate = ExtractedDate.split('-');
Date myDate = date.newinstance(Integer.valueOf(lstSplitDate[0]), Integer.valueOf(lstSplitDate[1]), Integer.valueOf(lstSplitDate[2]));

Home this will help you ;)

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