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Sandy Gali
Datetime format conversion in apex
Hello All,
I have an input field in my visualforce page which uses the html 5 input element as type="datetime-local". The value that I capture from the field is of the format "2016-04-09T23:58" . I want to use and save this field on to the database in salesforce and I cant assign the same value to the field directly. Even to parse salesforce expects a different format something like this '09/04/2016 5:10 PM'.
If I can do something like Datetime dt = DateTime.parse('24/11/2011 1:46 PM') then I can assign it to a field in Salesforce but there is nothing where I can use 2016-04-09T23:58 directly. I will have to convert 2016-04-09T23:58 to 09/04/2016 5:10 PM and do it.
Is there any better way to achieve this or am I missing something here
Regards,
Sandy
I have an input field in my visualforce page which uses the html 5 input element as type="datetime-local". The value that I capture from the field is of the format "2016-04-09T23:58" . I want to use and save this field on to the database in salesforce and I cant assign the same value to the field directly. Even to parse salesforce expects a different format something like this '09/04/2016 5:10 PM'.
If I can do something like Datetime dt = DateTime.parse('24/11/2011 1:46 PM') then I can assign it to a field in Salesforce but there is nothing where I can use 2016-04-09T23:58 directly. I will have to convert 2016-04-09T23:58 to 09/04/2016 5:10 PM and do it.
Is there any better way to achieve this or am I missing something here
Regards,
Sandy
You can look into the below example:
Regards,
Mahesh
Try this.
<apex:outputText value="{0,date,MM'/'dd'/'yyyy,G 'at' HH:mm:ss z}">
<apex:param value="{!fieldThat you are getting}" />
</apex:outputText>
Link-https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pages.meta/pages/pages_compref_outputText.htm
I was trying to do something similar to what you suggested but I felt thats lot of code.
A better way to do it was to append :00 to the end of the date string and then do Datetime.valueOf(datestring)