org.bouncycastle.asn1
Class DERGeneralizedTime

java.lang.Object
  org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Encodable
      org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERObject
          org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERGeneralizedTime

All Implemented Interfaces:

DEREncodable, DERTags

public class DERGeneralizedTime

extends DERObject

Generalized time object.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Encodable

BER, DER

Fields inherited from interface org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERTags

APPLICATION, BIT_STRING, BMP_STRING, BOOLEAN, CONSTRUCTED, ENUMERATED, EXTERNAL, GENERAL_STRING, GENERALIZED_TIME, GRAPHIC_STRING, IA5_STRING, INTEGER, NULL, NUMERIC_STRING, OBJECT_IDENTIFIER, OCTET_STRING, PRINTABLE_STRING, SEQUENCE, SEQUENCE_OF, SET, SET_OF, T61_STRING, TAGGED, UNIVERSAL_STRING, UTC_TIME, UTF8_STRING, VIDEOTEX_STRING, VISIBLE_STRING

Constructor Summary

DERGeneralizedTime(java.lang.String time)
The correct format for this is YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ, or without the Z for local time, or Z+-HHMM on the end, for difference between local time and UTC time.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.Object o)
static DERGeneralizedTime	getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj, boolean explicit) return a Generalized Time object from a tagged object.
static DERGeneralizedTime	getInstance(java.lang.Object obj) return a generalized time from the passed in object
java.lang.String	getTime() return the time - always in the form of YYYYMMDDhhmmssGMT(+hh:mm|-hh:mm).
int	hashCode()

Methods inherited from class org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERObject

toASN1Object

Methods inherited from class org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Encodable

getDEREncoded, getDERObject, getEncoded, getEncoded

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DERGeneralizedTime

public DERGeneralizedTime(java.lang.String time)

The correct format for this is YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ, or without the Z for local time, or Z+-HHMM on the end, for difference between local time and UTC time.

Parameters:

time - the time string.

Method Detail

getInstance

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

return a generalized time from the passed in object

Throws:

java.lang.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:

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

getTime

public java.lang.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.

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object o)

Specified by:

equals in class DERObject

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Specified by:

hashCode in class DERObject