How to set TimePicker show with format 24h

I've created a TimePicker in layout and I want it to show time with format 24h.

Can you help me? Thanks.

Solution 1:

TimePicker is a view for selecting the time of day, in either 24 hour or AM/PM mode. You can use setIs24HourView(true) method with TimePicker.

Solution 2:

Setting TimePicker by default to 24 hour mode is not always a good idea since many countrys have diffrent convention. For this case use DateFormat.is24HourFormat(getActivity()).

Your final code migth look like picker.setIs24HourView(DateFormat.is24HourFormat(this));.

Further details see:

• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/pickers.html
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TimePicker.html
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/format/DateFormat.html

Solution 3:

If you want the TimePicker to be correctly initialized with the current time in 24h format use the following:

import java.util.Calendar;

timePicker.setIs24HourView(true);
timePicker.setCurrentHour(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));

Otherwise, due to Android bug, the picker will start with an incorrect hour (2 instead of 14 etc).