As I know getHours()
, getMinutes()
and getSeconds()
are all deprecated in Java and they are replaced with Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY
, Calendar.MINUTE
, Calendar.SECOND
.
These will in fact return the hour, minute and second for that particular moment. However, I would want to retrieved the hours and minutes from a Date variable. For instance,
say the time retrieved from database is
time = Thu Jan 01 09:12:18 CET 1970;
int hours = time.getHours();
int minutes = time.getMinutes();
int seconds = time.getSeconds();
By retrieving the hours, minutes, and seconds, I get
hours = 9
minutes = 12
seconds = 18
So, how do I use Calendar for this function? Although the getHours()
has been deprecated but it still worked. I would still like to know if there is an alternative to this.
Try this:
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(yourdate);
int hours = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minutes = calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
int seconds = calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND);
Edit:
hours, minutes, seconds
above will be the hours, minutes and seconds after converting yourdate
to System Timezone!
Java 8
System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().getHour()); // 7
System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().getMinute()); // 45
System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().getSecond()); // 32
Calendar
System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)); // 7
System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.MINUTE)); // 45
System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.SECOND)); // 32
Joda Time
System.out.println(new DateTime().getHourOfDay()); // 7
System.out.println(new DateTime().getMinuteOfHour()); // 45
System.out.println(new DateTime().getSecondOfMinute()); // 32
Formatted
Java 8
// 07:48:55.056
System.out.println(ZonedDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_TIME));
// 7:48:55
System.out.println(LocalTime.now().getHour() + ":" + LocalTime.now().getMinute() + ":" + LocalTime.now().getSecond());
// 07:48:55
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()));
// 074855
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("HHmmss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()));
// 07:48:55
System.out.println(new Date().toString().substring(11, 20));
For a time difference, note that the calendar starts at 01.01.1970, 01:00, not at 00:00. If you're using java.util.Date and java.text.SimpleDateFormat, you will have to compensate for 1 hour:
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
long end = start + (1*3600 + 23*60 + 45) * 1000 + 678; // 1 h 23 min 45.678 s
Date timeDiff = new Date(end - start - 3600000); // compensate for 1h in millis
SimpleDateFormat timeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("H:mm:ss.SSS");
System.out.println("Duration: " + timeFormat.format(timeDiff));
This will print:
Duration: 1:23:45.678