Getting the current time and date on a 24 hour timescale

Question

I am having problems getting the current time on a 24 hour timescale. As far as I know, \"HH\" should represent the current hour on a 24 hour timescale, however, for some re

Answer 1

You can use SimpleDateFormat to format it the way you like, this works:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
String str = sdf.format(new Date());

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