Java Internapzation - Formatting Time

DateFormat class provides various formats to format the time. DateFormat.getTimeInstance() method is to be used. See the example below.

In following example we ll show how to use different formats to format time.

IOTester.java

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

pubpc class I18NTester {
   pubpc static void main(String[] args) {
   
      DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.DEFAULT);

      System.out.println(dateFormat.format(new Date()));

      dateFormat = DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);

      System.out.println(dateFormat.format(new Date()));

      dateFormat = DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);

      System.out.println(dateFormat.format(new Date()));

      dateFormat = DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG);

      System.out.println(dateFormat.format(new Date()));

      dateFormat = DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL);

      System.out.println(dateFormat.format(new Date()));
  
  
   }
}

Output

It will print the following result.

4:11:21 PM
4:11 PM
4:11:21 PM
4:11:21 PM IST
4:11:21 PM IST