Time in HHMM format

Question

I want to use time as a HHMM format, like in the military's 1600 hrs for 4 PM. I was curious: Is there a way of getting it so by some dateformatter?

Feel free to recommend any third-party library or pure Java API solution.

Answer 1

Use the java.text.SimpleDateFormat

Date date = new Date();
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("HHmm");
System.out.println(format.format(date));

Answer 2

LocalTime

Current time using java.time.LocalTime and formatting using java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter ( java 8)

LocalTime time = LocalTime.now();
String t = time.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("HH:mm"));
System.out.println(t);

//output
05:41