datetime - Display Java 8 Time api in this format "HH:mma" (05:53PM) and add set Time with only minutes -

i want display / print out time 02:15pm , able set time based on minutes(possibly larger 59).

this doesn't seem work:

    datetimeformatter formatter = datetimeformatter.ofpattern("hh:mma");     string text = time.format(formatter);     localtime parsedtime = localtime.parse(text, formatter); 

it shows time 16:15 wrong 12/24 format(and am/pm missing of course)

so far set time this:

void settime(int minutes) {     time = localtime.of(minutes / 60, minutes % 60); } 

is there way in more elegant way (read: without dividing)?

i not want use joda time.

as discussed, use hh instead of hh am/pm clock. list of patterns detailed in the javadoc. example:

localtime time = localtime.of(18, 0); datetimeformatter fmt = datetimeformatter.ofpattern("hh:mma"); system.out.println(fmt.format(time)); //06:00pm 

as creating time number of minutes, can use:

localtime.midnight.plusminutes(minutes);