From 52c96522c1fe23476f4cf9dc89de153d45ee8a16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: anujgaud <146576725+anujgaud@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:24:38 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add Code for converting LocalDate to ISO 8601

---
 .../localdatetoiso/LocalDateToISO.java        | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/localdatetoiso/LocalDateToISO.java

diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/localdatetoiso/LocalDateToISO.java b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/localdatetoiso/LocalDateToISO.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7ef5c9bf56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/localdatetoiso/LocalDateToISO.java
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package com.baeldung.localDateToISO;
+
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.time.ZoneOffset;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils;
+
+public class LocalDateToISO {
+    public String formatUsingDateTimeFormatter(LocalDate localDate) {
+        DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX");
+        String formattedDate = localDate.atStartOfDay().atOffset(ZoneOffset.UTC).format(formatter);
+        return formattedDate;
+    }
+
+    public String formatUsingSimpleDateFormat(LocalDate date) {
+        Date utilDate = Date.from(date.atStartOfDay(ZoneOffset.UTC).toInstant());
+        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX");
+        String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(utilDate);
+        return formattedDate;
+    }
+}