Question

I’m trying to call:

https://mechanicalturk.amazonaws.com/?Service=AWSMechanicalTurkRequester
&AWSAccessKeyId=[the Requester's Access Key ID]
&Version=2012-03-25
&Operation=ApproveRejectedAssignment
&Signature=[signature for this request]
&Timestamp=[your system's local time]
&AssignmentId=123RVWYBAZW00EXAMPLE456RVWYBAZW00EXAMPLE

I need the signature, which requires a UTC timestamp of the format YYYY:dd:MMTHH:mm:ss-Offset like 2012-05-25T11:30:47-07:00

I’m trying to use the java tools given here to make the signature, but I can’t get the Date to be formatted correctly.

I’m also game for using the SDK, but couldn’t figure out where to even begin with that.

Answer 1

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
    Date date = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
    System.out.println(sdf.format(date)); // 2012-06-23T00:03:52-0700