Getting hours,minutes, and seconds from Date? [duplicate]

Question

I want to get the current hour,minute, and second from the Date object.

This is my code:

Date date = new Date();
int hour = date.getHours();

But I get a kind of error, the getHours() part doesnt work. I get a "The method getHours() from the type Data is deprecated". What does that mean, and how do I get the hour,minutes, and seconds?

Answer 1

Use Calendar:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);  
int hours = cal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);

From Date javadoc:

Deprecated. As of JDK version 1.1, replaced by Calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE).

Returns the number of minutes past the hour represented by this date, as interpreted in the local time zone. The value returned is between 0 and 59.