Question

I got table with a timestamp field in my mysql db.
I would like to print in java just the hour and minutes in this format HH:MM .

How can I do that?
Printing the timestamp without any change would look like that:

2013-01-29 11:05:00

I tagged java since I would like to do that in java.

Answer 1

SimpleDateFormat is what you want

String date = "2013-01-29 11:05:00";

SimpleDateFormat parsedFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
SimpleDateFormat printedFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
Date a = parsedFormat.parse(date);
System.out.println(printedFormat.format(a));