I have java util date as Thu Feb 28 15:35:00 GMT+00:00 2013
How to convert it to HH:MM.
I am trying to do this via below snippet:
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:MM");
formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
return formatter.format(objDate);
Its giving right result for dd mmm but always giving minutes as 02 for HH:MM
Please suggest me what is wrong in this function?
MM is the month value in SimpleDateFormat. You want mm. Note that using HH will give you the 24 hour clock (00-23)... you can use hh for the 12 hour clock (01-12) but you probably also want the am/pm designator in that case.
See the documentation for SimpleDateFormat for more details of the various format specifiers available.
Also note that for internationalization purposes, you might be better off with:
DateFormat formatter = DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, locale);
... so that it will use the appropriate "short time format" for the given locale. That's appropriate if this is for display (human-readable) purposes; for computer-readable formats, it's fine to create a custom format but I'd recommend explicitly using Locale.US to avoid getting different calendars and format symbols (e.g. the time separator).
use
String str ="Thu Feb 28 15:35:00 GMT+00:00 2013";
SimpleDateFormat formatter_from = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss ZZ yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat formatter_to = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm");
try {
java.util.Date d = formatter_from.parse(str);
System.out.println(formatter_to.format(d));
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
