Getting the Correct Time

[Robin Richardson]

What is the best way to get a program to display the correct time in the output? I am using java.util.Calendar, but at 12:24:40 it is displaying 0244. How do I correct this, or what is a better way to show the time?
Thanks
Robin

[Shama Khan]

Not a direct answer but ...

SimpleDateFormat formatter
= new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss a zzz");
Date currentTime_1 = new Date();
String dateString = formatter.format(currentTime_1);

// Parse the previous string back into a Date.
ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
Date currentTime_2 = formatter.parse(dateString, pos);
System.out.println(currentTime_2);

Yielded: Tue Oct 09 14:46:18 EDT 2001

Read more at: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/api/java.text.SimpleDateFormat.html#_top_

[Cindy Glass]

More Direct:
// import java.text.*;java.util.*;
Date today;
String output;
SimpleDateFormat formatter;
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("H:mm:ss");
today = new Date();
output = formatter.format(today);
System.out.println(output);
Yielded: 15:12:27

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Calendar uses the date from your computer's OS. Does your computer show the correct time?