Time and float masks

Question

Hi everyone,
I got a question, is there anyway to use a mask to time and float values using CSS or maybe another way?.......what i mean is that i wolud like to show time in a outputtext like 10:20:09(hh:mm:ss) but this value stored in a db like a String 102009, and the same thing with floats like 120,000,000.89 but stored like 120000000.89.......
Thanks in advance
Santiago

Answer 1

Joachim i don't know if you can give a hand....i checked what you tell and I can parse a String to date format without milliseconds......but i only need the time, but it gets me the entire date....i checked for the method getTimeInstance() but it returns the same....i'm trying some like this....i hope you could give me a hand
DateFormat a= new SimpleDateFormat("kkmmssSSS");
a.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
try{
      Date pase = a.parse("120350123");
      pase=pase;
      System.out.println(pase);
}catch(Exception e)
           {}that code returns me Thu Jan 01 12:03:50 GMT-05:00 1970 and i just need 12:03:50 with the milliseconds
Thanks in advance,
Santiago