Extract time from date String

Question

How can I format the "2010-07-14 09:00:02" date string to depict just "9:00"?

Answer 1

Use SimpleDateFormat to convert between a date string and a real Date object. with a Date as starting point, you can easily apply formatting based on various patterns as definied in the javadoc of the SimpleDateFormat (click the blue code link for the Javadoc).

Here's a kickoff example:

String originalString = "2010-07-14 09:00:02"; Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").parse(originalString); String newString = new SimpleDateFormat("H:mm").format(date); // 9:00 

Answer 2

Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").parse("2010-07-14 09:00:02"); String time = new SimpleDateFormat("H:mm").format(date); 

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html