Java String to DateTime

Question

I have a string from a json response:

start: "2013-09-18T20:40:00+0000",
end: "2013-09-18T21:39:00+0000",

How do i convert this string to a java DateTime Object?

i have tried using the following:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX");
start = sdf.parse("2013-09-18T20:40:00+0000");

but with this i can only create a Date Object. But the time binded in the String is kinda essential.

Any Help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You don't need a DateTime object. java.util.Date stores the time too.

int hours = start.getHours(); //returns the hours
int minutes = start.getMinutes(); //returns the minutes
int seconds = start.getSeconds(); //returns the seconds

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As R.J says, these methods are deprecated, so you can use the java.util.Calendar class:

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(sdf.parse("2013-09-18T20:40:00+0000"));
int hour = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR); //returns the hour
int minute = calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE); //returns the minute
int second = calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND); //returns the second

Note: on my end, sdf.parse("2013-09-18T20:40:00+0000") fires a

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2013-09-18T20:40:00+0000"
    at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:357)
    at MainClass.main(MainClass.java:16)