Question

I’ve got the following code:

Date time = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm").parse("8:00");

When I call time.toString(), the following is produced:

Thu Jan 01 08:00:00 CET 1970

Is there any way I can extract just the 8:00 from it? I have searched far and wide and have not found any way to do it using the standard SimpleDateFormat.

Answer 1

recycle your original SimpleDateFormat Object

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm")
Date time = format.parse("8:00");
String outString = format.format(time);

in case you were wondering, Here’s some more information on DateTime Masks