How to set time to 24 hour format in Calendar

Question

I need to set the time on the current date. The time string is always in 24 hour format but the result I get is wrong:

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Answer 1

tl;dr

LocalTime.parse( "10:30" )  // Parsed as 24-hour time.

java.time

Avoid the troublesome old date-time classes such as Date and Calendar that are now supplanted by the java.time classes.

LocalTime

The java.time classes provide a way to represent the time-of-day without a date and without a time zone: LocalTime

LocalTime lt = LocalTime.of( 10 , 30 );  // 10:30 AM.
LocalTime lt = LocalTime.of( 22 , 30 );  // 22:30 is 10:30 PM.

ISO 8601

The java.time classes use standard ISO 8601 formats by default when generating and parsing strings. These formats use 24-hour time.

String output = lt.toString();

LocalTime.of( 10 , 30 ).toString() : 10:30

LocalTime.of( 22 , 30 ).toString() : 22:30

So parsing 10:30 will be interpreted as 10:30 AM.

LocalTime lt = LocalTime.parse( "10:30" );  // 10:30 AM.

DateTimeFormatter

If you need to generate or parse strings in 12-hour click format with AM/PM, use the DateTimeFormatter class. Tip: make a habit of specifying a Locale.