FastDateFormat is Fast by Apache Commons Lang Example

FastDateFormat is a fast and thread-safe version of SimpleDateFormat.To obtain an instance of FastDateFormat, use one of the static factory methods: getInstance(String, TimeZone, Locale), getDateInstance(int, TimeZone, Locale),getTimeInstance(int, TimeZone, Locale), or getDateTimeInstance(int, int, TimeZone, Locale)

Since FastDateFormat is thread safe, you can use a static member instance:

private static final FastDateFormat DATE_FORMATTER = FastDateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(FastDateFormat.LONG, FastDateFormat.SHORT);

This class can be used as a direct replacement to SimpleDateFormat in most formatting and parsing situations. This class is especially useful in multi-threaded server environments.SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe in any JDK version, nor will it be as Sun have closed the bug/RFE.

All patterns are compatible with SimpleDateFormat (except time zones and some year patterns – see below).

Since 3.2, FastDateFormat supports parsing as well as printing.

Java 1.4 introduced a new pattern letter, 'Z', to represent time zones in RFC822 format (eg. +0800 or -1100). This pattern letter can be used here (on all JDK versions).

In addition, the pattern 'ZZ' has been made to represent ISO 8601 full format time zones (eg. +08:00 or -11:00). This introduces a minor incompatibility with Java 1.4, but at a gain of useful functionality.

Javadoc cites for the year pattern: For formatting, if the number of pattern letters is 2, the year is truncated to 2 digits; otherwise it is interpreted as a number. Starting with Java 1.7 a pattern of ‘Y’ or ‘YYY’ will be formatted as ‘2003’, while it was ’03’ in former Java versions. FastDateFormat implements the behavior of Java 7.

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