Question

I have an application that retrieves a string formatted in date time format from a database, and I want to display only the time in certain instances, how would I accomplish this?

This is what I have tried so far but I get an Unparsable error

public static final String DATE_TIME_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd kk:mm:ss";
private static final String TIME_FORMAT = "kk:mm";

// ...

SimpleDateFormat TimeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(TIME_FORMAT);
Date startTimer = null;
Date endTimer = null;

try
{
    String dateString = cursor.getString(6); 
    startTimer = TimeFormat.parse(dateString); 

    //Code for End Time
    String endDateString = cursor.getString(7); 
    endTimer = TimeFormat.parse(endDateString);

    totalBillable += endTimer.getTime() - startTimer.getTime();             
}
catch (ParseException e)
{
    Log.e("ReminderEditActivity", e.getMessage(), e);
}

Answer 1

I’m guessing that you are getting Unparsable error because you are parsing a string date that has different format. Try this:

String dateString = cursor.getString(6); 
startTimer = TimeFormat.parse(dateString.substring(11, 16)); 

String endDateString = cursor.getString(7); 
endTimer = TimeFormat.parse(endDateString.substring(11, 16));

Hopefully by this substring() method, you will get the kk:mm date format.