convert a 4-digit military time into the standard 12 hour time format

Question

What I\'m trying to do:

I\'m trying to convert a 4-digit military time into the standard 12 hour time format, with a colon and an added PM or AM wit

Answer 1

You can do this much, much simpler, using a clever string conversion and SimpleDateFormat, here is the example but parsed in two lines:

// Heres your military time int like in your code sample
int milTime = 56;
// Convert the int to a string ensuring its 4 characters wide, parse as a date 
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("hhmm").parse(String.format("%04d", milTime));
// Set format: print the hours and minutes of the date, with AM or PM at the end 
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a");
// Print the date!
System.out.println(sdf.format(date));
// Output: 12:56 AM