package org.kodejava.example.util;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class StringToTimeExample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// You want to convert a string reprenting a time into a time object
// in Java. As we know that Java is representing a time information
// in a class java.util.Date, this class keep information about date
// and time.
String time = "15:30:18";
// Now if you have a string of time you can use a SimpleDateFormat
// object to parse the string date and return a date object. The pattern
// of the string should be passed to the simple date format constructor.
// In the example below the string is formatted as hh:mm:ss (hour:minutes:
// second).
DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");
try
{
// The get the date object from the string just called the parse
// method and pass the time string to it. The method throws ParseException
// if the time string is in an invalid format. But remember as we don't
// pass the date information this date object will represent the 1st of
// january 1970.
Date date = sdf.parse(time);
// As the parse process success we'll have our time string in the
// created date instance.
System.out.println("Date and Time: " + date);
} catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
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