SimpleDateFormat get only the time

Question

I have a problem when I try to get only the time from a Timestamp. An example of the Timestamp is: 2012-04-19T23:05:00+0200 I think the format is "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" right? And it must be "HH:mm". I use the following code, but it returnes nothing: ``` public String getTime(String Vertrektijd){ final SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"); Date dateObj; String newDateStr = null; try { dateObj = df.parse(Vertrektijd); SimpleDateFormat fd = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm"); newDateStr = fd.format(dateObj); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return newDateStr; } ``` Thanks for the help!

Accepted Answer

Your code is correct...

In the example time what you have given in the question(ie, "2012-04-19T23:05:00+0200") is missing MilliSeconds

Try passing this

```
getTime("2012-04-19T23:05:00.235+0200");
```

It should work.

Edit: As MH mentioned, If you dont want to use milliseconds you can change the code to

```
final SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
```

SimpleDateFormat get only the time

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