Retrieve time portion of date

Question

How can I retrieve the time portion of a date?

Date date = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
System.out.println(dateFormat(date));

Answer 1

Date date = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
String time = dateFormat.format(date)

Answer 2

You won't believe:

String result = dateFormat.format(date);