hey, I have a method that get the time of shanghai ```val CURRENT_TIME_ZONE = TimeZone.of("Asia/Shan...

# kotlinx-datetime

[kurt_steiner]

hey, I have a method that get the time of shanghai

val CURRENT_TIME_ZONE = TimeZone.of("Asia/Shanghai")
fun shanghaiNow() = Clock.System.now().toLocalDateTime(CURRENT_TIME_ZONE).toInstant(UtcOffset(hours = 8))

but I found that, when creating it many times, the length of them are not the same,
do you know how to fix it ?

[andylamax]

you can pad it with trailing zeros. Thats why the lengths aren't the same

[kurt_steiner]

can you show me how ?

[andylamax]

Just to be clear, you need the string representation to have equal length right?? just the representation

[kurt_steiner]

they are not string, they are column of timestamp in postgresql

[andylamax]

If its not the representation thats a problem, then why is the length a concern? becoz in the end, padded with zeros or not, the value will be the same altogether

i.e.

2023-12-16 21:51:29.544 is the same as 2023-12-16 21:51:29.544000

[kurt_steiner]

thank you for focus still, I have fix it with this code

val date = ZonedDateTime.parse(isostring).toInstant()
val result = formatDateFormat.format(date.atZone(ZoneOffset.UTC))