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Java 8 fix for Exception when using LocalDateTime.now() format with zone Z - java.time.temporal.UnsupportedTemporalTypeException: Unsupported field: OffsetSeconds

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Created by:
jonrsharpe
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1. Problem description

I would like to format date time now from LocalDateTime.now() with formatter pattern 

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm Z

Full code which throws UnsupportedTemporalTypeException: 

import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

public class DateTimeFormatter_UnsupportedTemporalTypeException {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm Z");
        String format = fmt.format(LocalDateTime.now());
        System.out.println(format);
    }
}

When I run this code I get this stacktrace:

Exception in thread "main" java.time.temporal.UnsupportedTemporalTypeException: Unsupported field: OffsetSeconds
	at java.time.LocalDate.get0(LocalDate.java:680)
	at java.time.LocalDate.getLong(LocalDate.java:659)
	at java.time.LocalDateTime.getLong(LocalDateTime.java:720)
	at java.time.format.DateTimePrintContext.getValue(DateTimePrintContext.java:298)
	at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatterBuilder$OffsetIdPrinterParser.format(DateTimeFormatterBuilder.java:3346)
	at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatterBuilder$CompositePrinterParser.format(DateTimeFormatterBuilder.java:2190)
	at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.formatTo(DateTimeFormatter.java:1746)
	at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.format(DateTimeFormatter.java:1720)

2. Solution

// to solve this exception use:
ZonedDateTime.now()

// eg:
String format = fmt.format(ZonedDateTime.now());

// instead of using:
LocalDateTime.now()

Full working code example:

import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

public class DateTimeFormatter_UnsupportedTemporalTypeException_Solution {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm Z");
        String format = fmt.format(ZonedDateTime.now());
        System.out.println(format); // 2019-10-04 22:55 +0200
    }
}

Output:

2019-10-04 22:55 +0200

References

  1. LocalDateTime.now() - Java docs
  2. UnsupportedTemporalTypeException - Java docs
  3. ZonedDateTime.now() - Java docs
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