Time: Determining in system shows 12 or 24 hours

Question

I am saving a Date to SharedPreferences so it needs to be saved as a string. That's fine. However, I need to display this date (more specifically the time) at a later point.

I would like the time to be displayed in 12 hour or 24 inline with the system displayed preference. The problem is that I can't find a method of doing this. There are some answers floating around to check date patterns for "am" or "pm" or even "h". Another answer what to use: `DateFormat.is24Hour(). But this does not seem to exist anymore (I can't find out to get that method anywhere!)

What's the best method to solve this?

Answer 1

There are two classes named DateFormat:

• java.text.DateFormat
• android.text.format.DateFormat

The method is24HourFormat() is found only in android.text.format.DateFormat class. You only have to pay attention importing the correct class.