Formatting the Time Using a Custom Format

In this section, you will learn how to format the time using a custom format.

In this section, you will learn how to format the time using a custom format.

Formatting the Time Using a Custom Format

In this section, you will learn how to format the time using a custom format.

Formatting and parsing is now become a simple task. We have so many classes to format different objects like data, time, message etc. Here we are going to format the time using a custom format. For this task, the class SimpleDateFormat is more approriate. It uses unquoted letters from 'A' to 'Z' and from 'a' to 'z' and interpret them as pattern letters for representing the components of a date or time string. For example,
h: It denotes the hour in am/pm.
m: It denotes minute in hour.
s: It denotes the second in minute.
a: It denotes the am/pm marker.

In the given example, we have created an instance of SimpleDateFormat class and specify the pattern for default locale. Then we have invoked the format() method which includes the date object. This method formats the time in the given pattern.

Here is the code:

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class FormattingTime {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss a");
		String dateString = sdf.format(new Date());
		System.out.println(dateString);
	}
}

Output:

11:07:37 AM

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