In my app, I have a requirement to format 12 hours time to 24 hours time. What is the method I have to use? For example, time like 10:30 AM. How can I convert to 24 hours time in java? Answer Try this: which produces: See: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
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How to calculate “time ago” in Java?
In Ruby on Rails, there is a feature that allows you to take any Date and print out how “long ago” it was. For example: Is there an easy way to do this in Java? Answer Take a look at the PrettyTime library. It’s quite simple to use: You can also pass in a locale for internationalized messages: As noted
How to round time to the nearest quarter hour in java?
Given today’s time e.g. 2:24PM, how do I get it to round to 2:30PM? Similarly if the time was 2:17PM, how do I get it to round to 2:15PM? Answer Rounding You will need to use modulo to truncate the quarter hour: As pointed out by EJP, this is also OK (replacement for the last line, only valid if the
GPS Time Representation library
I am looking for a Java library that handles conversion to/from GPS Time. GPS Time has an epoch of 6 January 1980, and does not have leap seconds, so it differs from the more standard time representations. Here is the relevant description from wikipedia: While most clocks are synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the atomic clocks on the satellites
how to convert minutes to days,hours,minutes
how to convert minutes into days hours and minutes in java ( we have a week here , 7 days ) I tried this but it dont work thanks Answer A shorter way. (Assumes time >= 0)