Simpledateformat Gethours() Return Incorrect Value

Why getHours() for '09:50' return 8? Code: SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat('HH:mm'); Date date = sdf.parse('09:50'); int hours = date.getHours(); // return 8 instead of

Solution 1:

            Calendar prueba = Calendar.getInstance();

        prueba.set(2013, 1, 6, 10, 49, 32);

        int day = prueba.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        int month = prueba.get(Calendar.MONTH);
        int year = prueba.get(Calendar.YEAR);
        int hours = prueba.get(Calendar.HOUR);
        int minutes = prueba.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
        int seconds = prueba.get(Calendar.SECOND);

        Log.v("printf", "Date: " + day + "/"
                                 + month + "/"
                                 + year + "\n");
        Log.v("printf", "Time: " + hours + ":"
                                 + minutes + ":"
                                 + seconds + "\n");

PD: Remember field Month from Calendar class begin by 0 (0-January, 1-February, ...) PD2: I have personalize tag on filter logcat called "printf". Change that for your tag that you use.

Solution 2:

It seems your SimpleDateFormat may not have been set to the default time zone. Calling:

sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());

before parsing the literal should solve your problem. I have tested the following code:

...
    public static final SimpleDateFormat CDfTimestamp = new SimpleDateFormat(
            "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
...
    Date da1 = null;
    for (String dl1 : new String[] { "1970-01-01 12:34:56",
            "2016-01-01 12:34:56" }) {
        try {
            CDfTimestamp.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT+05:00"));
            da1 = CDfTimestamp.parse(dl1);
            System.out.printf("parse GMT+05:00 %s -> %d %d %d (os=%d)\n", dl1, da1
                    .getHours(), da1.getMinutes(), da1.getSeconds(), CDfTimestamp
                    .getTimeZone().getOffset(0));
            CDfTimestamp.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
            da1 = CDfTimestamp.parse(dl1);
            System.out.printf("parse UTC       %s -> %d %d %d (os=%d)\n", dl1, da1
                    .getHours(), da1.getMinutes(), da1.getSeconds(), CDfTimestamp
                    .getTimeZone().getOffset(0));
            CDfTimestamp.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
            da1 = CDfTimestamp.parse(dl1);
            System.out.printf("parse default   %s -> %d %d %d (os=%d)\n", dl1, da1
                    .getHours(), da1.getMinutes(), da1.getSeconds(), CDfTimestamp
                    .getTimeZone().getOffset(0));
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
...

obtaining the following output:

parse GMT+05:001970-01-0112:34:56 -> 83456 (os=18000000)
parse UTC       1970-01-0112:34:56 -> 133456 (os=0)
parse default   1970-01-0112:34:56 -> 123456 (os=3600000)
parse GMT+05:002016-01-0112:34:56 -> 83456 (os=18000000)
parse UTC       2016-01-0112:34:56 -> 133456 (os=0)
parse default   2016-01-0112:34:56 -> 123456 (os=3600000)

Solution 3:

Date is deprecated. you should use calendar.

SimpleDateFormatsdf=newSimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
 Datedate= sdf.parse("09:50");
 Calendarcal=newGregorianCalendar();
cal.setTime(date);
inthours= cal.get(Calendar.HOR_OF_DAY);