QT reformat date time string

Question

I've got a QString that contains a date in the following format:

2014-03-18 09:30:36

How can i format it to: HH:mm?

Answer 1

You can use QDateTime::fromString and QDateTime::toString methods:

QString dateStr = "2014-03-18 09:30:36";
QString fmt = "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss";
QDateTime dt = QDateTime::fromString(dateStr, fmt);
QString timeStr = dt.toString("hh:mm");