How to extract zone from a date which has it.

[Jacob Sonia]

I have a date in this format ->SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm Z");

How can i extract just Z ie. Zone from it, is it possible with stringifying and extracting it.

[Richard Tookey]

I don't really understand your requirement. java.util.Date objects do not have an explicit time zone (the implicit one is UTC) so it seems you must be considering the date as a String. If one uses class SimpleDateFormat to parse this to a java.util.Date then one loses any time zone information that was explicit in the String so I suspect one has to parse the String oneself to extract the time zone. I would use a regular expression but they are not to everyone's taste.

Once you have the time zone extracted as a String then one can convert it to a TimeZone object using one of the static methods of class TimeZone.