org.mortbay.util
Class DateCache

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.mortbay.util.DateCache

public class DateCache
extends Object

Date Format Cache. Computes String representations of Dates and caches the results so that subsequent requests within the same minute will be fast. Only format strings that contain either "ss" or "ss.SSS" are handled. The timezone of the date may be included as an ID with the "zzz" format string or as an offset with the "ZZZ" format string. If consecutive calls are frequently very different, then this may be a little slower than a normal DateFormat.

Author:
Kent Johnson , Greg Wilkins (gregw)

Constructor Summary
DateCache()
          Constructor.
DateCache(String format)
          Constructor.
DateCache(String format, DateFormatSymbols s)
           
DateCache(String format, Locale l)
           
 
Method Summary
 String format(Date inDate)
          Format a date according to our stored formatter.
 String format(long inDate)
          Format a date according to our stored formatter.
 void format(long inDate, StringBuffer buffer)
          Format to string buffer.
 SimpleDateFormat getFormat()
          Get the format.
 String getFormatString()
           
 TimeZone getTimeZone()
           
 String now()
           
 void setTimeZone(TimeZone tz)
          Set the timezone.
 void setTimeZoneID(String timeZoneId)
          Set the timezone.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

DateCache

public DateCache()
Constructor. Make a DateCache that will use a default format. The default format generates the same results as Date.toString().


DateCache

public DateCache(String format)
Constructor. Make a DateCache that will use the given format


DateCache

public DateCache(String format,
                 Locale l)

DateCache

public DateCache(String format,
                 DateFormatSymbols s)
Method Detail

setTimeZone

public void setTimeZone(TimeZone tz)
Set the timezone.

Parameters:
tz - TimeZone

getTimeZone

public TimeZone getTimeZone()

setTimeZoneID

public void setTimeZoneID(String timeZoneId)
Set the timezone.

Parameters:
timeZoneId - TimeZoneId the ID of the zone as used by TimeZone.getTimeZone(id)

format

public String format(Date inDate)
Format a date according to our stored formatter.

Parameters:
inDate -
Returns:
Formatted date

format

public String format(long inDate)
Format a date according to our stored formatter.

Parameters:
inDate -
Returns:
Formatted date

format

public void format(long inDate,
                   StringBuffer buffer)
Format to string buffer.

Parameters:
inDate - Date the format
buffer - StringBuffer

getFormat

public SimpleDateFormat getFormat()
Get the format.


getFormatString

public String getFormatString()

now

public String now()