How to get clock from a date

Question

I have Date like this Sun May 20 09:18:44 GMT+04:30 2018 how i can get clock from this Date, i want result like this 09:18 am

Log.v(TAG,"date "+ date.toString());// output is Sun May 20 09:18:44 GMT+04:30 2018
SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm");
String time=sdf.format(date);//NullPointerException

`date` is `null`. And use `new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a")`. — ADM, May 21 '18 at 05:24
Don't be sure on your own. Provide the Exception report in question. — ADM, May 21 '18 at 05:28
I cannot reproduce either. `date` is obviously non-null in the `Log.v` line, and then I cannot get any `NullPointerException`. For help with this one please [create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve). — Ole V.V., May 21 '18 at 05:41
As an aside consider throwing away the long outmoded and notoriously troublesome `SimpleDateFormat` and friends, and adding [ThreeTenABP](https://github.com/JakeWharton/ThreeTenABP) to your Android project in order to use `java.time`, the modern Java date and time API. It is so much nicer to work with. — Ole V.V., May 21 '18 at 05:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '18 at 05:27

Try this code..

        SimpleDateFormat sdf3 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
    SimpleDateFormat sdf4 = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm", Locale.ENGLISH);

    Date d1 = null;
    try{
        d1 = sdf3.parse("Sun May 20 09:18:44 GMT+04:30 2018");
        String date=sdf4.format(d1);
        System.out.println("time..." + date);

    }catch (Exception e){ e.printStackTrace(); }


    System.out.println("check..." + d1);

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '18 at 05:34

your code is working you just have to initialize Date class's object Date date = new Date();

    Date date = new Date();
    Log.v(TAG,"date "+ date.toString());
    SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm");
    String time=sdf.format(date);
    Log.v(TAG,"date "+ time);

How to get clock from a date

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