How do I convert string of time to time object?

By Wayan in Core API, Util Package 1 Comment

You want to convert a string representing a time into a time object in Java. As we know that Java represents time information in a class java.util.Date, this class keep information for date and time.

Now if you have a string of time like 15:30:18, you can use a SimpleDateFormat object to parse the string time and return a java.util.Date object. The pattern of the string should be passed to the SimpleDateFormat constructor. In the example below the string is formatted as hh:mm:ss (hour:minute:second).

package org.kodejava.util;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class StringToTimeExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {        
        // A string of time information
        String time = "15:30:18";

        // Create an instance of SimpleDateFormat with the specified
        // format.
        DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");
        try {
            // To get the date object from the string just called the 
            // parse method and pass the time string to it. This method 
            // throws ParseException if the time string is invalid. 
            // But remember as we don't pass the date information this 
            // date object will represent the 1st of january 1970.
            Date date = sdf.parse(time);            
            System.out.println("Date and Time: " + date);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

The code snippet above print the following output:

Date and Time: Thu Jan 01 15:30:18 CST 1970
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