Package org.openpdf.text.pdf

Class PdfDate

java.lang.Object

org.openpdf.text.pdf.PdfObject

org.openpdf.text.pdf.PdfString

org.openpdf.text.pdf.PdfDate

public class PdfDate
extends PdfString

PdfDate is the PDF date object.

PDF defines a standard date format. The PDF date format closely follows the format defined by the international standard ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One, defined in CCITT X.208 or ISO/IEC 8824). A date is a PdfString of the form:

(D:YYYYMMDDHHmmSSOHH'mm')

This object is described in the 'Portable Document Format Reference Manual version 1.3' section 7.2 (page 183-184)

See Also:

• PdfString
• GregorianCalendar

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.openpdf.text.pdf.PdfString

encoding, hexWriting, value

Fields inherited from class org.openpdf.text.pdf.PdfObject

ARRAY, BOOLEAN, bytes, DICTIONARY, INDIRECT, NAME, NOTHING, NULL, NUMBER, STREAM, STRING, TEXT_PDFDOCENCODING, TEXT_UNICODE, type

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PdfDate()	Constructs a PdfDate-object, representing the current day and time.
PdfDate(String d)	Constructs a PdfDate-object.
PdfDate(Calendar d)	Constructs a PdfDate-object.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class org.openpdf.text.pdf.PdfString

getBytes, toPdf, toString

Methods inherited from class org.openpdf.text.pdf.PdfObject

canBeInObjStm, isArray, isDictionary, isName, isNull, isNumber, isString, setContent, type

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

PdfDate

public PdfDate(Calendar d)

Constructs a PdfDate-object.

Parameters:

d - the date that has to be turned into a PdfDate-object

PdfDate

public PdfDate(String d)

Constructs a PdfDate-object.

Parameters:

d - the date in the PDF ASN.1 date format ((D:YYYYMMDDHHmmSSOHH'mm')

PdfDate

public PdfDate()

Constructs a PdfDate-object, representing the current day and time.