public class MailDateFormat extends SimpleDateFormat
This class does not take pattern strings. It always formats the date based on the specification below.
3.3. Date and Time Specification
Date and time occur in several header fields. This section specifies the syntax for a full date and time specification. Though folding white space is permitted throughout the date-time specification, it is RECOMMENDED that a single space be used in each place that FWS appears (whether it is required or optional); some older implementations may not interpret other occurrences of folding white space correctly.
 date-time       =       [ day-of-week "," ] date FWS time [CFWS]
 day-of-week     =       ([FWS] day-name) / obs-day-of-week
 day-name        =       "Mon" / "Tue" / "Wed" / "Thu" /
                         "Fri" / "Sat" / "Sun"
 date            =       day month year
 year            =       4*DIGIT / obs-year
 month           =       (FWS month-name FWS) / obs-month
 month-name      =       "Jan" / "Feb" / "Mar" / "Apr" /
                         "May" / "Jun" / "Jul" / "Aug" /
                         "Sep" / "Oct" / "Nov" / "Dec"
 day             =       ([FWS] 1*2DIGIT) / obs-day
 time            =       time-of-day FWS zone
 time-of-day     =       hour ":" minute [ ":" second ]
 hour            =       2DIGIT / obs-hour
 minute          =       2DIGIT / obs-minute
 second          =       2DIGIT / obs-second
 zone            =       (( "+" / "-" ) 4DIGIT) / obs-zone
 
 The day is the numeric day of the month.  The year is any numeric year
 1900 or later.
 The time-of-day specifies the number of hours, minutes, and optionally seconds since midnight of the date indicated.
The date and time-of-day SHOULD express local time.
The zone specifies the offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly referred to as "Greenwich Mean Time") that the date and time-of-day represent. The "+" or "-" indicates whether the time-of-day is ahead of (i.e., east of) or behind (i.e., west of) Universal Time. The first two digits indicate the number of hours difference from Universal Time, and the last two digits indicate the number of minutes difference from Universal Time. (Hence, +hhmm means +(hh * 60 + mm) minutes, and -hhmm means -(hh * 60 + mm) minutes). The form "+0000" SHOULD be used to indicate a time zone at Universal Time. Though "-0000" also indicates Universal Time, it is used to indicate that the time was generated on a system that may be in a local time zone other than Universal Time and therefore indicates that the date-time contains no information about the local time zone.
A date-time specification MUST be semantically valid. That is, the day-of-the-week (if included) MUST be the day implied by the date, the numeric day-of-month MUST be between 1 and the number of days allowed for the specified month (in the specified year), the time-of-day MUST be in the range 00:00:00 through 23:59:60 (the number of seconds allowing for a leap second; see [STD12]), and the zone MUST be within the range -9959 through +9959.
DateFormat.FieldAM_PM_FIELD, calendar, DATE_FIELD, DAY_OF_WEEK_FIELD, DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH_FIELD, DAY_OF_YEAR_FIELD, DEFAULT, ERA_FIELD, FULL, HOUR_OF_DAY0_FIELD, HOUR_OF_DAY1_FIELD, HOUR0_FIELD, HOUR1_FIELD, LONG, MEDIUM, MILLISECOND_FIELD, MINUTE_FIELD, MONTH_FIELD, numberFormat, SECOND_FIELD, SHORT, TIMEZONE_FIELD, WEEK_OF_MONTH_FIELD, WEEK_OF_YEAR_FIELD, YEAR_FIELD| Constructor and Description | 
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MailDateFormat()  | 
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StringBuffer | 
format(Date date,
      StringBuffer dateStrBuf,
      FieldPosition fieldPosition)
Formats the given date in the format specified by 
 RFC 2822 in the current TimeZone. 
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Date | 
parse(String text,
     ParsePosition pos)
Parses the given date in the format specified by
 RFC 2822 in the current TimeZone. 
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void | 
setCalendar(Calendar newCalendar)
Don't allow setting the calendar 
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void | 
setNumberFormat(NumberFormat newNumberFormat)
Don't allow setting the NumberFormat 
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applyLocalizedPattern, applyPattern, clone, equals, formatToCharacterIterator, get2DigitYearStart, getDateFormatSymbols, hashCode, set2DigitYearStart, setDateFormatSymbols, toLocalizedPattern, toPatternformat, format, getAvailableLocales, getCalendar, getDateInstance, getDateInstance, getDateInstance, getDateTimeInstance, getDateTimeInstance, getDateTimeInstance, getInstance, getNumberFormat, getTimeInstance, getTimeInstance, getTimeInstance, getTimeZone, isLenient, parse, parseObject, setLenient, setTimeZoneformat, parseObjectpublic StringBuffer format(Date date, StringBuffer dateStrBuf, FieldPosition fieldPosition)
format in class SimpleDateFormatdate - the Date objectdateStrBuf - the formatted stringfieldPosition - the current field positionpublic Date parse(String text, ParsePosition pos)
parse in class SimpleDateFormattext - the formatted date to be parsedpos - the current parse positionpublic void setCalendar(Calendar newCalendar)
setCalendar in class DateFormatpublic void setNumberFormat(NumberFormat newNumberFormat)
setNumberFormat in class DateFormatCopyright © 1996-2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms.