How to remove the SECONDS field from a DateFormat

Question

I want to print a time without seconds in the default format for the locale. So I get the formatter with getTimeInstance() or getTimeInstance(int style). But even when I use a SHORT style it will contain the seconds part of the time as well.

Is there any way (apart from creating my own format, which then would not be the locale default and manually maintained) I can grab the default and split off the seconds ?

Thanks

Roman

Answer 1

EDIT: This is insufficient (as stated by the first comment below). I'm keeping this here for the sake of history and to keep others from responding in a similar fashion :)

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Have you considered saving the current format as a string and manually removing the seconds using String's substring method?

Answer 2

DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT) works perfectly fine here: from 20:00:00 to 20:00 and from 8:00:00 PM to 8:00 PM.