converting a date to a time in java

Question

hi,

how to convert a date type in java to a time type.

thanks for help.

Answer 1

The Date object stores date and time, you can get the time out of a date with accessors.

Answer 2

A java.util.Date already contains both date information (day, month, year, etc.) and time-of-day information (hour, minute, second, and millisecond).

What are you trying to do, that you can't?

Answer 3

Use java.text.SimpleDateFormat

DateFormat dfm = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
dfm.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Zurich"));
Date a = dfm.parse("2007-02-26 20:15:00");
Date b = dfm.parse("2007-02-27 08:00:00");

Answer 4

Assuming based on your question history you want convert java.util.Date to java.sql.Time. You can just construct Time with the milliseconds as obtained from Date#getTime():

Time time = new Time(date.getTime());

Also see the linked Javadocs. This is #1 source to look for answers to this kind of trivial questions.

Answer 5

If date is a Date object, then use:

Time time = new Time(date.getTime());

Answer 6

Java Date and time classes can be a bit confusing. I wrote a tutorial covering the core classes. You can find it here:

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-date-time/index.html