I am trying to convert an arabic Time into English Time

Question

I am trying to convert an Arabic Time to Englist Time can anyone help me on this.

Example :- The Arabic Time is 12:30 صباحاً

The English Time should be 12.30 AM

Answer 1

You may use a DateFormat with an arabic Locale to parse the original String to a Date, then a DateFormat with Locale.ENGLISH to convert to an english String :

DateFormat formatArabic = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm aa", new Locale("ar", "SA"));
DateFormat formatEnglish = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm aa", Locale.ENGLISH);

try {

    Date date = formatArabic.parse("12:30 صباحاً");

    System.out.println(formatEnglish.format(date));

} catch (ParseException e) {

    e.printStackTrace();
}