Extract only time in 12 hr format ( AM or PM ) from date time String android

Question

I have a string with contains date time retrieved from webservice in the form "2014-11-12 16:19:00" I need to extract only the time in 12 hr format AM or PM . I tried but not got desired result .

public Date validateBreakingNewsDateDate() throws Exception{                            
        Date date = null;
        String dtStart = "2014-11-12 16:19:00";  
        SimpleDateFormat  format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");  
        try {  
             date= format.parse(dtStart);  
            Log.e("date", "kardate "+date); 
        } catch (ParseException e) {  
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block  
            e.printStackTrace();  
        }   
        return date;
}

what you can do is extract the time and then check its am or pm — Pramod Yadav, Dec 15 '14 at 11:10
Possible duplicate of [this](http://stackoverflow.com/q/14053079/1777090) — MysticMagicϡ, Dec 15 '14 at 11:10

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '14 at 11:10

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Try the following code snippet

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy     hh:mm:ss a");

answered Dec 15 '14 at 11:10

Don Chakkappan

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Thank you very much. Perfect and simple answer..+1 – Shailendra Madda Jun 05 '15 at 10:08

Arun Antoney · Answer 2 · 2014-12-16T04:58:59.137

pass your date to this function it will return time

   public String setTime(String date) {
    final String OLD_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
    final String NEW_FORMAT = "h:mm a";

    String newDate = "";
    try {
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(OLD_FORMAT);
        Date d = sdf.parse(date);
        sdf.applyPattern(NEW_FORMAT);
        newDate = sdf.format(d);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO: handle exception
    }
    return newDate;
}

example

 public String setTime(String date) {
    final String OLD_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
    final String NEW_FORMAT = "h:mm a";

    String newDate = "";
    try {
        sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(OLD_FORMAT);
        Date d = sdf.parse("2014-11-12 16:19:00");
        sdf.applyPattern(NEW_FORMAT);
        newDate = sdf.format(d);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO: handle exception
    }
    return newDate;
}

output=4:19 PM

may be you are passing incorrect date format then it will cause parse exception try to debug your code' — Arun Antoney, Dec 16 '14 at 05:00

uday · Answer 3 · 2014-12-15T11:33:33.567

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try this...

DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = format.parse(dtStart);
String newstring = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm aa").format(date);

edited Dec 15 '14 at 11:33

answered Dec 15 '14 at 11:23

uday

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 16 '14 at 06:15

You can fetch 12 hour time using SimpleDateFormat as follows

Date date = null;
String dtStart = "2014-11-12 16:19:00";
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd KK:mm:ss");
try {
    date = format.parse(dtStart);
    Log.e("date", "kardate " + date);
    // here hh means hours in 12 hr format and a stands for AM/PM
    format = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss a");
    String desiredTime= format.format(date);
    // You will get newDate 04:19:00 pm
    Log.e("date", "newDate " + desiredTime);
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Hope it helps ツ

Extract only time in 12 hr format ( AM or PM ) from date time String android

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