Doubt in formatting date

[ramya narayanan]

Dear all,
Currently I'm doing date formatting with DateFormat class.

 import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
 
public class DateFormatting
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        // get the current time
        Date date = new Date();
 
        // create a formatter that outputs a short date and 
 
time.
DateFormat 
 
dateformat=DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
 
        DateFormat df 
 
=DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);
        String currentdate=dateformat.format(date);
        String time = df.format(date);
        System.out.println("The current date is : 
 
"+currentdate);
        System.out.println("The current time is : "+time);
        
    }
}   

This is my output:

C:\sai>javac DateFormatting.java

C:\sai>java DateFormatting
The current date is : 12/9/08
The current time is : 1:23:58 PM

I want to display the date in
dd/mm/yy format: 09/12/08.

Time in 24 hr format:
In this case 13:23:58 hrs

How this can be done?
Regards.

[Christophe Verré]

There's a convenient formatting class called SimpleDateFormat. Try to figure out how you can use it to format your date.

[Campbell Ritchie]

There are also options in the printf method; the details are in the Java Tutorials and the Formatter class javadoc.

Don't know, but you may be able to use a Locale object to change 12/9/2008 to 9/12/2008; you would have to look through the DateFormat documentation for uses of Locale.

[edit]Corrected broken link.[/edit]
[ December 09, 2008: Message edited by: Campbell Ritchie ]

[Puneet Mittal]

hi Campbell how are you. i think the link you provided for Java Tutorials is not working. please verify it.

There are also options in the printf method; the details are in the Java Tutorials and the Formatter class javadoc.

[ramya narayanan]

I want to print the time in 24 hr format.
So when i code

 SimpleDateFormat df1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy 
 
hh:mm:ss a");
        System.out.println(df1.format(date));
    

output:

 
09/12/2008 02:27:22
 
   

But i want it to be 14:27:22 hrs
How to do it?
Regards.

[Christophe Verré]

Instead of "hh", don't you see anything else interesting in SimpleDateFormat's API ? You'll see that there is at least four different ways to format the hour. Try to find the good one

[Maneesh Godbole]

Did you check the API for SimpleDateFormat as Christophe had suggested?
Did you find anything for a 24 hour time pattern?

[ramya narayanan]

Thanks I've found it out & it's K instead of h

 SimpleDateFormat df1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy 
 
[B]kk[/B]:mm:ss ");
        System.out.println(df1.format(date));   

output:

09/12/2008 14:38:02

Thanks & Regards.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Originally posted by PUNEET MITTAL:
hi Campbell how are you. i think the link you provided for Java Tutorials is not working. please verify it.

Thank you for noticing the error. ( ) I shall go back and correct it.

[Christophe Verré]

Thanks I've found it out & it's K instead of h

Are you sure ? 0:00 will become 24:00. If that's what you were looking for, no problem then

[ramya narayanan]

no idea yet.
Regards

[Jesper de Jong]

What about HH instead of hh? Note, this is all documented in the API documentation of class SimpleDateFormat. Please look at the documentation.

[ramya narayanan]

Yeah Thanks Jesper young it's working now.
Thanks for the input !
Regards