com.lowagie.text.pdf
Class PdfDate

java.lang.Object
  com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject
      com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfString
          com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDate

public class PdfDate
extends PdfString

PdfDate is the PDF date object.

PDF defines a standard date format. The PDF date format closely follows the format defined by the international standard ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One, defined in CCITT X.208 or ISO/IEC 8824). A date is a PdfString of the form:

(D: YYYYMMDDHHmmSSOHH'mm')

This object is described in the 'Portable Document Format Reference Manual version 1.3' section 7.2 (page 183-184)

See Also:

PdfString, GregorianCalendar

Field Summary

private static int[]

dateSpace

Fields inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfString

encoding, hexWriting, objGen, objNum, originalValue, value

Fields inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject

ARRAY, BOOLEAN, bytes, DICTIONARY, INDIRECT, indRef, NAME, NOTHING, NULL, NUMBER, STREAM, STRING, TEXT_PDFDOCENCODING, TEXT_UNICODE, type

Constructor Summary

PdfDate()
Constructs a PdfDate-object, representing the current day and time.

PdfDate(java.util.Calendar d)
Constructs a PdfDate-object.

Method Summary

static java.util.Calendar	decode(java.lang.String s) Converts a PDF string representing a date into a Calendar.
private java.lang.String	setLength(int i, int length) Adds a number of leading zeros to a given String in order to get a String of a certain length.

Methods inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfString

decrypt, getBytes, getEncoding, getOriginalBytes, isHexWriting, setHexWriting, setObjNum, toPdf, toString, toUnicodeString

Methods inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject

canBeInObjStm, getIndRef, isArray, isBoolean, isDictionary, isIndirect, isName, isNull, isNumber, isStream, isString, length, setContent, setIndRef, type

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

dateSpace

private static final int[] dateSpace

Constructor Detail

PdfDate

public PdfDate(java.util.Calendar d)

Constructs a PdfDate-object.

Parameters:

d - the date that has to be turned into a PdfDate-object

PdfDate

public PdfDate()

Constructs a PdfDate-object, representing the current day and time.

Method Detail

setLength

private java.lang.String setLength(int i,
                                   int length)

Adds a number of leading zeros to a given String in order to get a String of a certain length.

Parameters:

i - a given number

length - the length of the resulting String

Returns:

the resulting String

decode

public static java.util.Calendar decode(java.lang.String s)

Converts a PDF string representing a date into a Calendar.

Parameters:

s - the PDF string representing a date

Returns:

a Calendar representing the date or null if the string was not a date