How to set time to 24 hour format in Calendar

Question

I need to set the time on the current date. The time string is always in 24 hour format but the result I get is wrong:

  SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("kk:mm");
  Date d1 = df.parse("10:30");
  Calendar c1 = Calendar.getInstance();
  c1.set(Calendar.HOUR, d1.getHours());
  c1.set(Calendar.MINUTE, d1.getMinutes());

The date should be today's date and the time set to 10:30. Instead the time in c1 ends up being 22:30. How can I force the calendar control to recognize my time is 24 hour format?

EDIT: If I just do this:

Calendar c1 = Calendar.getInstance();
c1.set(Calendar.HOUR, 10);
c1.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 30);

This gives me the same result. Why?

Answer 1

Replace this:

c1.set(Calendar.HOUR, d1.getHours());

with this:

c1.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, d1.getHours());

Calendar.HOUR is strictly for 12 hours.

Answer 2

use SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm"); instead

UPDATE

@Ingo is right. is's better use setTime(d1);

first method getHours() and getMinutes() is now deprecated

I test this code

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm");
  Date d1 = df.parse("23:30");
  Calendar c1 = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
  c1.setTime(d1);
  System.out.println(c1.getTime());

and output is ok Thu Jan 01 23:30:00 FET 1970

try this

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("KK:mm aa");
  Date d1 = df.parse("10:30 PM");
  Calendar c1 = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(Locale.US);
  SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");  
  c1.setTime(d1);
  String str = sdf.format(c1.getTime());
  System.out.println(str);

Answer 3

You can set the calendar to use only AM or PM using

calendar.set(Calendar.AM_PM, int);

0 = AM

1 = PM

Hope this helps