Java: convert a time from today to a timestamp

Question

I am using Java 6, and I have a time from the current date as a string, like this: 14:21:16, and I need to convert this to a Timestamp object to store in a database.

However there seems to be no good way to get a Timestamp from this. Timestamp.valueOf(String) is quite close, but requires a date. Is there a good way to make a Timestamp object from such a string?

Answer 1

How about this:

final String str = "14:21:16";
final Timestamp timestamp =
    Timestamp.valueOf(
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd ")
        .format(new Date()) // get the current date as String
        .concat(str)        // and append the time
    );
System.out.println(timestamp);

Output:

2011-03-02 14:21:16.0