Question

I am using following code to display date and time:

String currentDateTime =java.text.DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
textViewDay.setText(currentDateTime);

I am getting date and time in format

Sep 17,2012 1:24:31 PM

I don’t want to display the second’s in output,so how yo get the output in following format

Sep 17,2012 1:24 PM

thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

you have to use a SimpleDateFormat:

with this pattern:

String pattern = "MMM d, yyyy h:mm a"