SimpleDateFormat get only the time

Question

I have a problem when I try to get only the time from a Timestamp.

An example of the Timestamp is:

2012-04-19T23:05:00+0200

I think the format is "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" right? And it must be "HH:mm".

I use the following code, but it returnes nothing:

public String getTime(String Vertrektijd){
        final SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
        Date dateObj;
        String newDateStr = null;
        try
        {
            dateObj = df.parse(Vertrektijd);
            SimpleDateFormat fd = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
            newDateStr = fd.format(dateObj);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
          e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return newDateStr;
    }

Thanks for the help!

Solution

Your code is correct...

In the example time what you have given in the question(ie, "2012-04-19T23:05:00+0200") is missing MilliSeconds

Try passing this

getTime("2012-04-19T23:05:00.235+0200");

It should work.

Edit: As MH mentioned, If you dont want to use milliseconds you can change the code to

final SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");