Display AM/PM time marker with SimpleDateFormat(“a”) in Java

You can display AM/PM time marker easily in Java using SimpleDateFormat(“a”).

Firstly, to work with SimpleDateFormat class in Java, import the following package.

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

Now, set the format with SimpleDateFormat(“a”) to display AM/PM marker −

Format f = new SimpleDateFormat(”a”);

Now, get the marker in a string −

String strMarker = f.format(new Date());

The following is an example −

Example

 Live Demo

import java.text.Format; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import java.util.Calendar; public class Demo { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { // displaying current date and time Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); SimpleDateFormat simpleformat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMMM/yyyy hh:mm:s"); System.out.println("Today's date = "+simpleformat.format(cal.getTime())); // displaying hour Format f = new SimpleDateFormat("H"); String strHour = f.format(new Date()); System.out.println("Current Hour = "+strHour); // displaying minutes f = new SimpleDateFormat("mm"); String strMinute = f.format(new Date()); System.out.println("Current Minutes = "+strMinute); // displaying seconds in two-digits f = new SimpleDateFormat("ss"); String strSeconds = f.format(new Date()); System.out.println("Current Seconds = "+strSeconds); // displaying AM/ PM f = new SimpleDateFormat("a"); String strMarker = f.format(new Date()); System.out.println("Current AM/PM Marker = "+strMarker); } }

Output

Today's date = 26/November/2018 08:08:52 Current Hour = 8 Current Minutes = 08 Current Seconds = 52 Current AM/PM Marker = AM