You can do what @demobox suggested or, if all dates returned by the CloudSigma
API have the same iso8601 format, you can bind to the context a DateAdapter
that parses dates taking that format into account. Jclouds already comes with a
[Iso8601DateAdapter](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/json/config/GsonModule.java#L216-L239)
to parse dates, so if you want to parse dates like this by default, you can
then avoid writing a parser and just configure it in a Guice module. Something
like:
```java
public class CloudSigmaParserModule extends AbstractModule {
@Override
protected void configure() {
bind(DateAdapter.class).to(Iso8601DateAdapter.class);
}
}
```
Then, add that module to the default modules in the CloudSigma ApiMetadata
class, and you are done. jclouds-chef parses dates like this by default. You
can take a look at the
[ChefParserModule](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-chef/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/chef/config/ChefParserModule.java)
(at the end) and to the
[ChefApiMetadata](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-chef/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/chef/ChefApiMetadata.java)
to see an example.
Either the approach suggested by @demobox and this one are good ways to handle
that. It depends on your needs and how your API works!
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