SimpleDateformat: 12 hour versus 24 hour

[techshiv]

Hello,

I have a date in the form of a string "5/31/2007 4:30:03 PM"

And I convert this string to date and save it. This is what I do:

SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy kk:mm:ss");
dtStamp=sdf.parse("5/31/2007 4:30:03 PM");

and I am getting dtStamp as
Thu May 31 04:30:03 EDT 2007

I want time as 16:30,
which I am not able to get irrespective of the format I use.

Please let me know where I am going wrong. Thanks.

Shiv

 

[techshiv]

ok.. This worked

SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa");

Shiv

 

[Hal Rosser]

ok.. This worked

SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa");

Shiv

You could shorten it to
SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("M/d/y h:m:s a");