Date validation

[meena latha]

Hi all.

I am trying to get the time format in hh:mm format.
Below is the code that i used for that.

String strFormat = "HH:MM";
DateFormat myDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(strFormat);
Date myTime = null;

try 
{
String ReportTime = "12:00";
myTime = myDateFormat.parse(ReportTime);
    
}catch (ParseException e)
{
     System.out.println("Invalid Date Parser Exception ");
     e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Finished Date Function " + myTime.getTime());
return myTime;

i wanted to get the output in "hh:mm" format but i am getting in form of
"hh:mm:ss".
Any help regarding this will be useful
Thanks
Ramya

[Ulf Dittmer]

You'll need to format it during output as well, something like

System.out.println(myDateFormat.format(myTime));
[ October 24, 2005: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

[meena latha]

hi that is not working.
Because the return type of format() is string ,but i want the return type to be Date object.So to convert the string to Date if i use parse then again the output is in hh:mm:ss format,but i wanted it to be in hh:mm format.

[Joel McNary]

I'm a little confused. "Format" doesn't make sense for a Date object. Dates are only formatted when they become string representations of Dates. So the return type should be a String.

Perhaps what you want is to set the seconds of the date to zero? To do that, take a look at the Calendar class.