SimpleDateformat: 12 hour versus 24 hour

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techshiv@gmail.com - 01 Jun 2007 20:40 GMT

Hello,

I have a date in the form of a string "5/31/2007 4:30:03 PM"

And I convert this string to date and save it. This is what I do:

SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy kk:mm:ss");
dtStamp=sdf.parse("5/31/2007 4:30:03 PM");

and I am getting dtStamp as
Thu May 31 04:30:03 EDT 2007

I want time as 16:30,
which I am not able to get irrespective of the format I use.

Please let me know where I am going wrong. Thanks.

Shiv

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techshiv@gmail.com - 01 Jun 2007 21:26 GMT

ok.. This worked

SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa");

Shiv

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Hal Rosser - 01 Jun 2007 22:51 GMT

> ok.. This worked
>
> SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa");
>
> Shiv

You could shorten it to
SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("M/d/y h:m:s a");

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