Convert String to Time Object in Java

Submitted by donbermoy on Friday, December 26, 2014 - 21:05.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a program that will convert a string into a time object using java. So, now let's start this tutorial! 1. Open JCreator or NetBeans and make a java program with a file name of timeParse.java. 2. Import the following package library:

import java.text.*; //use to access DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat class
import java.util.*; // use to access Date class

3. We will initialize variables in our Main, time as String, sdf as DateFormat, and date as Date.

    String time = "23:30:11";
 
    DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");
    Date date = sdf.parse(time);

As what you have seen the code above, i have initialized my time as String that holds the value of 23:30:11. Then, we used the DateFormat class to have a formatting of our time. And we used the Date to access the current date and time. To have a conversion of string to time, we will use the parse method of the SimpleDateFormat that has the time variable as String. 4. To display the converted string into time, have the code below:

System.out.println("Date and Time: " + date);

Output: output

Here's the full code of this tutorial:

import java.text.*; //use to access DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat class
import java.util.*; // use to access Date class
public class timeParse {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String time = "23:30:11";
 
    DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");
    Date date = sdf.parse(time);
 
    System.out.println("Date and Time: " + date);
  }
}

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