Help with Date n time!!

Question

I am having problems with time and dates.
I am reading records from the database which is in time format (hh:mm) but when I am reading those records it is giving me this; like:
<b>10:00 AM in the database would be something like this</b>
<b>12/31/1899 10:00 AM some junk.</b>
How would u convert time in the same format I have in the database.
How would u add time.Please help!!
My project is at halt b/c of this..

Answer 1

I am assuming that you have read the link that I've posted but don't understand what it said....So, here is a code snipet that shows you how you can convert the time string and the date-and-time string:
try {
   SimpleDateFormat df=new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a",Locale.getDefault());
   Date date=df.parse("10:00 AM");
   System.out.println(date.getTime());
   df=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a z",Locale.getDefault());
   date=df.parse("12/31/1999 10:00 AM CST");
   System.out.println(date.getTime());
} catch (Throwable e) {}Note that date.getTime() returns a long integer representing number of milliseconds (in the case where a date is involved, the number starts at 0 for 1/1/1970 -- a negative number is for a date prior to 1/1/1970). To find seconds, divide date.getTime() by 1000, to find minute, divide by 60000, etc....)
To answer your other problem, you can subtract one date.getTime() value by another. Unfortunately Java developers didn't see fit to provide classes to do date arithmetic.
Hope this answer your questions.
V.V.