com.twitter.util.Time.at("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z") throws an exception

[ghacheniour]

com.twitter.util.Time.at("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z") throws an exception

[ryanoneill]

Hi @ghacheniour,

The issue you're observing is due to the inclusion of the 'Z' when calling Time.at. The 'Z' here is a placeholder as well, and it indicates the TimeZone of the date/time being passed in. If you take a look at Java's SimpleDateFormat you can see specifically what all these values mean. On the page there, it lists an example of 'Z' as '-0800'. When I use that with your example, things work as expected.

import com.twitter.util.Time
Time.at("2019-05-12 00:00:00 -0800")
res1: com.twitter.util.Time = 2019-05-12 08:00:00 +0000

Hope that helps. Let me know if that resolves your issue.

[kevinoliver]

We should probably improve the docs to include an example as @ryanoneill did here.

[ryanoneill]

I've updated the docs so I'm going to close out this issue. Thanks for asking the question @ghacheniour