Java Utililty Methods Hour Format

List of utility methods to do Hour Format

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Method

StringformatToString(Date date)
format To String 
String time = null;
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(FROMAT);
time = format.format(date);
return time;
StringformatUIDate(Calendar calendar)
Utility routine that takes in a Calendar referece and returns a date/time stamp suitable for use in a Portlets environment. 
SimpleDateFormat fmt = null;
if ((calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR) == 0) && (calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE) == 0)
        && (calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND) == 0)) {
    fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
} else {
    fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy hh:mm a");
return fmt.format(calendar.getTime());
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StringformatUnixFileListing(final Date d)
Format the Date type. 
final SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd HH:mm");
return df.format(d);
StringformatUnsignedVersion(String ver)
Convert long date stamp to '07-Jul 21:09 UTC' with month name in the system locale 
if (ver != null) {
    try {
        long modtime = Long.parseLong(ver);
        return (new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM HH:mm")).format(new Date(modtime)) + " UTC";
    } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
return null;
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StringformatValue(Object value)
format Value 
if (value == null) {
    return "\"NULL\"";
if (value instanceof Date) {
    Date date = (Date) value;
    return "\"" + formatStoring.format(date) + "\"";
} else {
    return "\"" + value + "\"";
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StringBufferformatVerbose(int level, String message, String source)
format Verbose 
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append(DATE_FORMAT.format(new Date()));
sb.append(SEPARATOR).append(resolveLevel(level));
if (source != null && !source.equals("")) {
    sb.append(SEPARATOR).append(source);
if (message != null && !message.equals("")) {
    sb.append(SEPARATOR).append(message);
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StringformatW3CDateTime(Date date)
create a W3C Date Time representation of a date. 
SimpleDateFormat dateFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
dateFormater.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
return dateFormater.format(date);
StringformatW3CDateTime(Date date)
format WC Date Time 
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(W3C_DATETIME_PATTERN);
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
return df.format(date);
StringformatWCPDate(String date, String sFormat)
This method returns the date formatted by the given format. 
String sReturn = null;
Date dDate = new Date();
if ((date != null) && (date.length() != 0)) {
    SimpleDateFormat wcpFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
    try {
        dDate = wcpFormat.parse(date);
    } catch (Exception e) {
String sRealFormat = sFormat;
if ((sRealFormat == null) || sRealFormat.equals("")) {
    sRealFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(sRealFormat);
sReturn = fixedDateFormat(sdf, dDate);
return sReturn;
StringformatWithAge(Date date, String dateFormat, String suffix)
Provided a date you will get a timestamp and the age/old that you want. 
if (date == null) {
    return null;
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
StringBuffer out = new StringBuffer();
out.append(format.format(date));
out.append(" - ");
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
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