Question

I’m storing a time from a time picker in a separate ‘time’ column in my database.

At the moment I’m using the following method of receiving and storing the selected time from the picker.:

setTime = (TimePicker) findViewById(R.id.timePicker1);


Integer dobHour = setTime.getCurrentHour();
Integer dobMinute = setTime.getCurrentMinute();

Time timeToSet = new Time();
timeToSet.set(0, dobMinute, dobHour);

Database helper object with the insert method:

DBHandlerApp createApp = new DBHandlerApp(this, null, null);
    createApp.open();
    createApp.createAppointmentEntry(nameToSet, typeToSet, timeToSet, setDate, comToSet, alarmToSet);

Method in the DB helper class:

    public void createAppointmentEntry(String nameApp, String typeApp, Time timeApp, Date dateApp ,String commentApp, Boolean onOrOff) {



        ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
        cv.put(KEY_NAMEAPP, nameApp);
        cv.put(KEY_TYPEAPP, typeApp);
        cv.put(KEY_TIMEAPP, timeApp.toString());
        cv.put(KEY_DATEAPP, dateApp.toString());
        cv.put(KEY_COMMENTAPP, commentApp);
        cv.put(KEY_ALARM, onOrOff);
        ourDatabase.insert(DATABASE_TABLEAPP, null, cv);

In my app, the following output is showing how the date is stored:

Obviously this time format isnt correct. Can someone point me in the right direction of setting this as an actual time format.

Answer 1

Although Guilherme’s answer works, I’d say you can also use the Time#format() method to achieve proper formatting of your time. You pass off a String to the format() method (eg "%x%X") formatted to specifications of
strftime.

Eg

cv.put(KEY_TIMEAPP, timeApp.format("%x%X"));

This is just a default locale-specific representation, you can set it to basically anything if you want a consistent time format.