Question

On amazon’s documentation for post uploads to S3 it tells me that I need to format the date for the expiration key in the policy document like this:

The expiration specifies the expiration date of the policy in ISO8601
GMT date format.
For example, “2007-12-01T12:00:00.000Z” specifies that the policy is not valid after
12:00 GMT on 2007-12-01. Expiration is required in a policy.
and I can’t seem to figure out how to get joda-time to print print the date in the
correct format.

However I can’t seem to get it to print in GMT without the -4:00 or whatever for the local time zone.

I tried using the custom formatter with no luck, can anyone give me a hint here?

Answer 1

You need to use the LocalDate and LocalDateTime representations. Check it out:

DateTimeFormatter formatter = ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime();
System.out.print( formatter.print( new LocalDateTime() ) );

will print something like:

2012-05-22T12:09:22.988