Question

My Java code must get string “HH:MM” from console and needs to operate with it.
is there possible to parse such time from string in order to add, for example,2 hours.

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

System.out.print("Enter some time:");
String enteredTime = in.readLine(); 
// here I want to get time in some variable   

Thanks!

As result I have to get three dates and define is there three date between another dates .
I understand that I can split string on parts and work with their, but I’m lloking for simple way to operate with such times.

I found good solution:

SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
Date ten = parser.parse("10:00");
Date eighteen = parser.parse("18:00");

try {
    Date userDate = parser.parse(someOtherDate);
    if (userDate.after(ten) && userDate.before(eighteen)) {
    ...
}
} catch (ParseException e) {
    // Invalid date was entered
}

Answer 1

sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat ("HH:mm");
sdf.parse ("13:47");