Removing Seconds from Current Time

Question

I am using below way to get current time in Android as below :

String currentDateTimeString = DateFormat.getTimeInstance().format(new Date());

and getting result as : 4:51:03 PM

Now, What if I want to get time without seconds as 4:51 PM ?

Thank you

Did you at least google for how to format date in java? It takes less time than writing question which was already asked bazillion times — Selvin, Jun 27 '17 at 11:26
Possible duplicate of [How to remove the SECONDS field from a DateFormat](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17886532/how-to-remove-the-seconds-field-from-a-dateformat) — Ole V.V., Jun 27 '17 at 13:10

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '17 at 11:29

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You can use

 DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(new Date())

For even more control of the format you can use SimpleDateFormat.

answered Jun 27 '17 at 11:29

Henry

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '17 at 11:30

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DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT)

works perfectly fine here: from 20:00:00 to 20:00 and from 8:00:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

or

Date myDate=new Date(Time.getTime());
DateFormat df=new SimpleDateFormat("H:mm");
String myDateStr=df.format(myDate);

answered Jun 27 '17 at 11:30

Daksh Gargas

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 24 '21 at 18:47

I am using java and Persian date (you can choose your TimeZone)! Its full date and Time without Second!

and you can use it like :

 view.text = DateUtil.getPersianDateTimeShort(date, " - ")

public static String getPersianDateTimeShort(String dateStr, String separator) {
    String out = "";
    try {
      if (dateStr == null || dateStr.equals(""))
        return out;

      String date = getPersianFullDate(dateStr);
      String time = getPersianShortTime(dateStr);

      out = date + separator + time;
      return out;

    } catch (Exception e) {
      Log.e(DateUtil.class.getSimpleName() + ":getPersianDateTime", e.getClass().getName() + ": " + e.getMessage());
      return "";
    }

  }

  public static String getPersianShortTime(String dateStr) {
    return getPersianShortTime(dateStr, "HH:mm", TimeZone.getDefault());
  }

  public static String getPersianShortTime(String dateStr, String timeFormat, TimeZone timeZone) {
    String out;
    try {
      if (dateStr == null || dateStr.equals(""))
        return "";

      SimpleDateFormat sdfDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm", Locale.ENGLISH);
      sdfDate.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
      Date date = sdfDate.parse(dateStr);
      sdfDate = new SimpleDateFormat(timeFormat, Locale.ENGLISH);
      sdfDate.setTimeZone(timeZone);
      String time = sdfDate.format(date);

      out = time;
      return out;

    } catch (Exception e) {
      Log.e(DateUtil.class.getSimpleName() + ":getPersianTime", e.getClass().getName() + ": " + e.getMessage());
      return "";
    }

  }

Removing Seconds from Current Time

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