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1 /*
2  * $HeadURL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/module-main/src/main/java/org/apache/http/protocol/HttpDateGenerator.java $
3  * $Revision: 548066 $
4  * $Date: 2007-06-17 09:51:55 -0700 (Sun, 17 Jun 2007) $
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31 
32 package org.apache.http.protocol;
33 
34 import java.text.DateFormat;
35 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
36 import java.util.Date;
37 import java.util.Locale;
38 import java.util.TimeZone;
39 
40 
41 /**
42  * Generates a date in the format required by the HTTP protocol.
43  *
44  * @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
45  *
46  * @version $Revision: 548066 $
47  *
48  * @since 4.0
49  */
50 public class HttpDateGenerator {
51 
52     /** Date format pattern used to generate the header in RFC 1123 format. */
53     public static final
54         String PATTERN_RFC1123 = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz";
55 
56     /** The time zone to use in the date header. */
57     public static final TimeZone GMT = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT");
58 
59 
60     private final DateFormat dateformat;
61 
62     private long dateAsLong = 0L;
63     private String dateAsText = null;
64 
HttpDateGenerator()65     public HttpDateGenerator() {
66         super();
67         this.dateformat = new SimpleDateFormat(PATTERN_RFC1123, Locale.US);
68         this.dateformat.setTimeZone(GMT);
69     }
70 
getCurrentDate()71     public synchronized String getCurrentDate() {
72         long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
73         if (now - this.dateAsLong > 1000) {
74             // Generate new date string
75             this.dateAsText = this.dateformat.format(new Date(now));
76             this.dateAsLong = now;
77         }
78         return this.dateAsText;
79     }
80 
81 }
82