org.bouncycastle.asn1.cms

Class Time

java.lang.Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object

org.bouncycastle.asn1.cms.Time

All Implemented Interfaces:

ASN1Choice, ASN1Encodable, Encodable

public class Time
extends ASN1Object
implements ASN1Choice

RFC 5652: Dual-mode timestamp format producing either UTCTIme or GeneralizedTime.

 Time ::= CHOICE {
     utcTime        UTCTime,
     generalTime    GeneralizedTime }
 

This has a constructor using java.util.Date for input which generates a DERUTCTime object if the supplied datetime is in range 1950-01-01-00:00:00 UTC until 2049-12-31-23:59:60 UTC. If the datetime value is outside that range, the generated object will be DERGeneralizedTime.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Time(java.util.Date time) Creates a time object from a given date - if the date is between 1950 and 2049 a UTCTime object is generated, otherwise a GeneralizedTime is used.
Time(java.util.Date time, java.util.Locale locale) Creates a time object from a given date and locale - if the date is between 1950 and 2049 a UTCTime object is generated, otherwise a GeneralizedTime is used.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.util.Date	getDate() Get java.util.Date version of date+time.
static Time	getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj, boolean explicit)
static Time	getInstance(java.lang.Object obj) Return a Time object from the given object.
java.lang.String	getTime() Get the date+tine as a String in full form century format.
ASN1Primitive	toASN1Primitive() Produce an object suitable for an ASN1OutputStream.

Methods inherited from class org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object

equals, getEncoded, getEncoded, hasEncodedTagValue, hashCode

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Time

public Time(java.util.Date time)

Creates a time object from a given date - if the date is between 1950 and 2049 a UTCTime object is generated, otherwise a GeneralizedTime is used.

Parameters:

time - a date object representing the time of interest.

Time

public Time(java.util.Date time,
            java.util.Locale locale)

Creates a time object from a given date and locale - if the date is between 1950 and 2049 a UTCTime object is generated, otherwise a GeneralizedTime is used. You may need to use this constructor if the default locale doesn't use a Gregorian calender so that the GeneralizedTime produced is compatible with other ASN.1 implementations.

Parameters:

time - a date object representing the time of interest.

locale - an appropriate Locale for producing an ASN.1 GeneralizedTime value.

Method Detail

getInstance

public static Time getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj,
                               boolean explicit)

getInstance

public static Time getInstance(java.lang.Object obj)

Return a Time object from the given object.

Accepted inputs:

• null → null
• Time object
• DERUTCTime object
• DERGeneralizedTime object

Parameters:

obj - the object we want converted.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the object cannot be converted.

getTime

public java.lang.String getTime()

Get the date+tine as a String in full form century format.

getDate

public java.util.Date getDate()

Get java.util.Date version of date+time.

toASN1Primitive

public ASN1Primitive toASN1Primitive()

Produce an object suitable for an ASN1OutputStream.

Specified by:

toASN1Primitive in interface ASN1Encodable

Specified by:

toASN1Primitive in class ASN1Object

Returns:

a primitive representation of this object.