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Scala program to format the current time using SimpleDateFormat class

Here, we are going to learn how to format the current time using SimpleDateFormat class in Scala programming language?
Submitted by Nidhi, on May 29, 2021 [Last updated : March 11, 2023]

Scala - Current Time using SimpleDateFormat Class

Here, we will format the current time using SimpleDateFormat class and print the formatted result on the console screen.

Scala code to format the current time using SimpleDateFormat class

The source code to format the current time using SimpleDateFormat class is given below. The given program is compiled and executed on the ubuntu 18.04 operating system successfully.

// Scala program to format the
// current time using SimpleDateFormat() class

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

object Sample {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val now = Calendar.getInstance().getTime()

    //create format for date/time.
    val formatHour = new SimpleDateFormat("hh")
    val formatMinute = new SimpleDateFormat("mm")
    val formatAmPm = new SimpleDateFormat("a")

    val currHour = formatHour.format(now);
    val currMinute = formatMinute.format(now);
    val amOrPm = formatAmPm.format(now);

    println(currHour);
    println(currMinute);
    println(amOrPm);
  }
}

Output

09
22
PM

Explanation

In the above program, we used an object-oriented approach to create the program. And, we imported Calendar and SimpleDateFormat classes using the below statement,

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

Then we created a singleton object Sample and defined the main() function. The main() function is the entry point for the program.

In the main() function, we set the format of time using SimpleDateFormat class and printed the result on the console screen.

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