org.bouncycastle.asn1

Class DERGeneralizedTime

public class DERGeneralizedTime extends ASN1Object

Generalized time object.

Constructor Summary
	DERGeneralizedTime(String time) The correct format for this is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS[.f]Z, or without the Z for local time, or Z+-HHMM on the end, for difference between local time and UTC time.
	DERGeneralizedTime(Date time) base constructer from a java.util.date object

Method Summary
Date	getDate()
static DERGeneralizedTime	getInstance(Object obj) return a generalized time from the passed in object
static DERGeneralizedTime	getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj, boolean explicit) return a Generalized Time object from a tagged object.
String	getTime() return the time - always in the form of YYYYMMDDhhmmssGMT(+hh:mm\|-hh:mm).
String	getTimeString() Return the time.
int	hashCode()

The correct format for this is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS[.f]Z, or without the Z for local time, or Z+-HHMM on the end, for difference between local time and UTC time. The fractional second amount f must consist of at least one number with trailing zeroes removed.

Parameters: time the time string.

Throws: IllegalArgumentException if String is an illegal format.

DERGeneralizedTime

public DERGeneralizedTime(Date time)

base constructer from a java.util.date object

Method Detail

getDate

public Date getDate()

getInstance

public static DERGeneralizedTime getInstance(Object obj)

return a generalized time from the passed in object

Throws: IllegalArgumentException if the object cannot be converted.

getInstance

public static DERGeneralizedTime getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj, boolean explicit)

return a Generalized Time object from a tagged object.

Parameters: obj the tagged object holding the object we want explicit true if the object is meant to be explicitly tagged false otherwise.

Throws: IllegalArgumentException if the tagged object cannot be converted.

getTime

public String getTime()

return the time - always in the form of YYYYMMDDhhmmssGMT(+hh:mm|-hh:mm).

Normally in a certificate we would expect "Z" rather than "GMT", however adding the "GMT" means we can just use:

     dateF = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmssz");

To read in the time and get a date which is compatible with our local time zone.

getTimeString

public String getTimeString()

Return the time.

Returns: The time string as it appeared in the encoded object.

hashCode

public int hashCode()