Java: getMinutes and getHours

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Try using Joda Time instead of standard java.util.Date classes. Joda Time library has much better API for handling dates.

DateTime dt = new DateTime();  // current time
int month = dt.getMonth();     // gets the current month
int hours = dt.getHourOfDay(); // gets hour of day

See this question for pros and cons of using Joda Time library.

Joda Time may also be included to some future version of Java as a standard component, see JSR-310.

If you must use traditional java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar classes, see their JavaDoc’s for help (java.util.Calendar and java.util.Date).

You can use the traditional classes like this to fetch fields from given Date instance.

Date date = new Date();   // given date
Calendar calendar = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(); // creates a new calendar instance
calendar.setTime(date);   // assigns calendar to given date 
calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY); // gets hour in 24h format
calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR);        // gets hour in 12h format
calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);       // gets month number, NOTE this is zero based!

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