Wrong AM/PM locale string gets returned when using hy as locale language

Question

On Android API 19, setting locale to hy, time is displayed as կեսօրից առաջ instead of AM or ԿԱ. The string I get is way too long to fit in the UI. I am displaying time with

<TextClock/> 

I am setting the 12h format with this code:

Settings.System.putString(getContentResolver(), Settings.System.TIME_12_24, "12");

I tried running the same code in java fiddle: https://www.mycompiler.io/view/HnfUgdPt9zt Here I get AM as expected. If I try different locale, for example "sl" I get the same result in the java fiddle and in the Android project.

My code:

DateFormat timeOnly = new SimpleDateFormat("h:mm aa", new Locale("hy"));

Date fullDate =  new Date();
String callTime = timeOnly.format(fullDate);

I also tried to set AM and PM strings like this:

DateFormatSymbols sym = new DateFormatSymbols(locale);
sym.setAmPmStrings(new String[] {"AM", "PM"});

But I don't know how to apply that format to system time.

Answer 1

just format your date string like this

startTime = "2013-02-27 21:06:30";
    StringTokenizer tk = new StringTokenizer(startTime);
    String date = tk.nextToken();  
    String time = tk.nextToken();
    
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");
    SimpleDateFormat sdfs = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a");
    Date dt;
    try {    
        dt = sdf.parse(time);
        System.out.println("Time Display: " + sdfs.format(dt)); // <-- I got result here
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }