Java Convert String to OffsetDateTime

In this Java core tutorial we learn how to convert a String to java.time.OffsetDateTime object in Java programming language with different solutions and Java example codes.

Table of contents

How to convert String to OffsetDateTime using OffsetDateTime.parse() method
How to convert String to OffsetDateTime with custom date time format

How to convert String to OffsetDateTime using OffsetDateTime.parse() method

In Java, we can use the OffsetDateTime.parse(CharSequence text) static method to parse a String in ISO-8601 extended offset date-time format to a OffsetDateTime object as the Java code below.

ConvertStringToOffsetDateTimeExample1.java

import java.time.OffsetDateTime;

public class ConvertStringToOffsetDateTimeExample1 {
    public static void main(String... args) {
        OffsetDateTime offsetDateTime1 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2022-05-14T14:20:32.111222400+07:00");
        OffsetDateTime offsetDateTime2 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2022-05-15T14:30:50.222333400+02:00");
        OffsetDateTime offsetDateTime3 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2022-07-11T08:30:50.333555400+10:00");

        System.out.println(offsetDateTime1);
        System.out.println(offsetDateTime2);
        System.out.println(offsetDateTime3);
    }
}

The output as below.

2022-05-14T14:20:32.111222400+07:00
2022-05-15T14:30:50.222333400+02:00
2022-07-11T08:30:50.333555400+10:00

How to convert String to OffsetDateTime with custom date time format

Using the java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter class we convert a String in specified date time format to OffsetDateTime object as the following example Java code.

ConvertStringToOffsetDateTimeExample2.java

import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

public class ConvertStringToOffsetDateTimeExample2 {
    public static void main(String... args) {
        DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss z");
        OffsetDateTime offsetDateTime1 = OffsetDateTime.parse("11/07/2022 07:20:30 +07:00", dateTimeFormatter);

        System.out.println(offsetDateTime1);
    }
}