Getting the current time and date on a 24 hour timescale

Question

I am having problems getting the current time on a 24 hour timescale. As far as I know, "HH" should represent the current hour on a 24 hour timescale, however, for some reason, "HH" is not interpreted at all. This is why the following line of code outputs something like "HH:50:06 Uhr, 02. Sep.":

DateFormat.format("HH:mm:ss 'Uhr', dd. MMM", new Date());

Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Using "hh" works, however, this will output the time on a 12 hour scale, which is not what I'd like to do.

Help's appreciated!

Answer 1

You can use SimpleDateFormat to format it the way you like, this works:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
String str = sdf.format(new Date());

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