Character separator for time hh:mm:ss

[dougnickerson]

There is a DataFormatSymbols class available to get sevaral characters
used to form dates.
The separator used for hours minuts and seconds used for most locales
appears to be ':' In Italy it is '.'
- Ideally it would be neat if there were a method
TimeFormatSymbols::getTimeSeparatorChar() ?

Doug Nickerson

 

[Roedy Green]

There is a DataFormatSymbols class available to get sevaral characters
used to form dates.
The separator used for hours minuts and seconds used for most locales
appears to be ':' In Italy it is '.'
- Ideally it would be neat if there were a method
TimeFormatSymbols::getTimeSeparatorChar() ?

you could format the timestamp 1970 Jan 1 0:00 with the given local
and then use charAt to fish out the interesting characters. But you
never need them. You can simply format with SimpleDateFormat.
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[dougnickerson]

you could format the timestamp 1970 Jan 1 0:00 with the given local
and then use charAt to fish out the interesting characters.  But you
never need them.  You can simply format with SimpleDateFormat.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Productshttp://mindprod.com

"Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in
collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills.
Alternative energy sources are absolutely necessary.
Global warming will kill birds and bats, as well as other species,
in much greater numbers than wind power."
~ Dr. David Suzuki

Thank you. That would be a more general way to do it.
Currently I am searching for ':', then if not found, a '.'.
Trying to parse a time string that may contain milliseconds and return
a Date object. SimpleDateFormat wasn't handling fractions of a second.
e.g.,
char timeSep = ':'; // when you 'Assume' ...
int indexOf = strDate.lastIndexOf(timeSep);
// continue on at charAt(indexOf) to find the milli separator
and handle fractional seconds

Doug Nickerson

 

[Lew]

Thank you. That would be a more general way to do it.
Currently I am searching for ':', then if not found, a '.'.
Trying to parse a time string that may contain milliseconds and return
a Date object.

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/DateFormat.html#parse
(java.lang.String)>

SimpleDateFormat wasn't handling fractions of a second.

Huh? Did you read the Javadocs for SimpleDateFormat?

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/
SimpleDateFormat.html>