Decodes the hour of a supplied time into a plain language representation. - Java java.util

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Description

Decodes the hour of a supplied time into a plain language representation.

Demo Code


//package com.java2s;
import java.util.Calendar;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
        Calendar time = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println(decodeHours(time));
    }//from w w w .  jav a2  s. c om

    public static final String[] HOURS = { "midnight", "one", "two",
            "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine",
            "ten", "eleven", "noon" };

    /**
     * Decodes the hour of a supplied time into a plain language representation. 
     * Special cases are midnight and noon. Other times are one, two, three etc.  
     * 
     * @param time the time to decode.
     * @return String representing the hour.
     */
    public static String decodeHours(final Calendar time) {
        String decodedHour = null;
        int hour = time.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
        // If we are in the range of quarter to the hour we will be talking about the next hour
        if (time.get(Calendar.MINUTE) > 37) {
            hour = hour + 1;
            if (hour == 24) {
                hour = 0;
            }
        }
        // Now convert from 24hr hours > 12 e.g. 13:00 is 1pm so the same as 1 for our purposes
        if (hour > 12) {
            hour = hour - 12;
        }
        // Now return the value
        decodedHour = HOURS[hour];
        return decodedHour;
    }
}

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