parsing stopwatch data
I need to parse stopwatch data from a textfile in a beautifull way.
Data is represented in a "5.25.12" way, where 5 stands for 5 minutes, 25 stands for 25 seconds and 12 stands for 120 milliseconds.
Is there a way to parse such a date with a SimpleDateFormat?
I tried to do so using "mm.ss.SSS" pattern, but failed (result was a negative value).
1) is it possible to parse "5.25.12" data by using SimpleDateFormat?
1a) which pattern should I use to parse such a string to date?
2) May be there is a more beautiful way to parse such a data?
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Nikita_Koselev
The pattern you give is valid and using it you can construct a SimpleDateFormat which will convert a String like "5.25.12" into a date whose toString() representation is like "Thu Jan 01 00:05:25 NZST 1970".
Note: you get 12 milliseconds, not 120. If your data records centiseconds you may have to add a zero. Also it does give a date. If you are more interested in an interval of time you could split() the string and use the components separately.
private SimpleDateFormat minutesAndSecondsFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("mm.ss.SSS", new Locale(localeName));
double run1500meters = minutesAndSecondsFormat.parse(((String) athletesList.get(10)).trim()).getTime();
if athletesList.get(10) is "5.25.12" getTime()
returns -6874988.
It seems I understood, why value was negative. I'm in estonia, so my time was EST. getTime() "Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this Date object." So getTime() returns 325 - 7200 seconds.
> It seems I understood, why value was negative. I'm in estonia
I got the value -42874988 and had just figured out it was 12 hours different from what I expected. I'm not as quick as you so I hadn't twigged to the fact that I'm 12 hours ahead of GMT.
There's my thing learnt for the day. Thanks!
