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Java Date Time - OffsetDateTime.parse() Examples

[Last Updated: Oct 30, 2025]

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Class:

java.time.OffsetDateTime

java.lang.Objectjava.lang.Objectjava.time.OffsetDateTimejava.time.OffsetDateTimejava.time.temporal.TemporalTemporaljava.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusterTemporalAdjusterjava.lang.ComparableComparablejava.io.SerializableSerializableLogicBig

Methods:

As compare to LocalDateTime.parse(..), these parse methods need the offset string part (+/-hh:mm) at the end. For example 2007-12-03T10:15:30+01:00 

public static OffsetDateTime parse(CharSequence text)

This method internally calls other overloaded method: parse(text, DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME). The constant DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME, formats or parses a date-time with an offset


public static OffsetDateTime parse(CharSequence text,
                                   DateTimeFormatter formatter)

With this overloaded static method, we can specify our own formatter, or we can use one of the supported pre-defined constants of DateTimeFormatter class which support date-time with an offset id.



Examples


package com.logicbig.example.offsetdatetime;

import java.time.OffsetDateTime;

public class ParseExample {

    public static void main(String... args) {

        OffsetDateTime date = OffsetDateTime.parse("2016-10-26T12:00-06:00");
        System.out.println(date);

    }
}

Output

2016-10-26T12:00-06:00




package com.logicbig.example.offsetdatetime;

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

public class ParseExample2 {

    public static void main(String... args) {

        OffsetDateTime date = OffsetDateTime.parse("2016-10-02T20:15:30+01:00",
                DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE_TIME);
        System.out.println(date);

        date = OffsetDateTime.parse("2016-10-03T15:10:40Z",
                DateTimeFormatter.ISO_ZONED_DATE_TIME);
        System.out.println(date);

        date = OffsetDateTime.parse("Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:05:30 GMT",
                DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME);
        System.out.println(date);

        date = OffsetDateTime.parse("2016-10-02T20:15:30-06:00",
                DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME);
        System.out.println(date);
    }
}

Output

2016-10-02T20:15:30+01:00
2016-10-03T15:10:40Z
2017-03-01T11:05:30Z
2016-10-02T20:15:30-06:00




package com.logicbig.example.offsetdatetime;

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

public class ParseExample3 {

    public static void main(String... args) {
        OffsetDateTime d = OffsetDateTime.parse("2017-Apr-16 02:09:10 -0500",
                DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss x"));
        System.out.println(d);
    }
}

Output

2017-04-16T02:09:10-05:00




package com.logicbig.example.offsetdatetime;

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

public class ParseExample4 {

    public static void main(String... args) {
        DateTimeFormatter formatter =
                DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z");
        String dateString = "31/Mar/2017:05:16:03 -0700";

        OffsetDateTime d = OffsetDateTime.parse(dateString, formatter);
        System.out.println(d);
    }
}

Output

2017-03-31T05:16:03-07:00

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