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MooHa
MooHa

Reputation: 849

Unparseable time in Java with SimpleDateFormat

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("h:mm a");

edto.setDate(formatter.parse(startHrs.getText() + ":" + startMin.getText());

Hello, I'm trying to format my time into something like 12:08 PM to add into sqlite as type DATETIME. In my DTO class the corresponding time field is of Date type.

I am getting error for the above that such string is unparseable. Why is this.

Please note startHrs and startMin are two JTextFields Components taking in the value of Hours (12) and Minutes (08) respectively.

How can I successfully parse the date?

Errors:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "12:12"
    at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:337)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 815

Answers (4)

Rais Alam
Rais Alam

Reputation: 7016

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("h:mm a");

edto.setDate(formatter.parse(startHrs.getText() + ":" + startMin.getText());

In above code formatter string is hour:minute:am or pm but i can see as input you are only providing hour and minute which results in unparsable date. Either correct your parser format string or provide input in hour:minute:AM or hour:minute:PM format.

Upvotes: 0

Amit Kumar Gupta
Amit Kumar Gupta

Reputation: 7413

You need to add AM or PM

edto.setDate(formatter.parse(startHrs + ":" + startMin + " AM"));

It works for me

Upvotes: 2

Subhrajyoti Majumder
Subhrajyoti Majumder

Reputation: 41220

your dateformat is h:mm a which does not match with 12:12. It will match with 12:12 PM.

Try -

edto.setDate(formatter.parse(startHrs.getText() + ":" + startMin.getText()+" PM");

I would suggest you to use HH instead of h which represent Hour in day (0-23) there you don't need to predict Am/pm marker.

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
edto.setDate(formatter.parse(startHrs.getText() + ":" + startMin.getText());

Upvotes: 1

bjedrzejewski
bjedrzejewski

Reputation: 2436

You need to use the 'a' to set up PM / AM - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Try parsing:

12:12 AM

Upvotes: 0

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