java - Parse Time into Calendar without losing Date part -

i need store in calendar java object date/time consisting of today's date plus time parsed string in hh:mm:ss format.

i tried creating new gregoriancalendar , using settime() initialize result of calling simpledateformat's parse() method noticed parse() returns me date object correct parsed time date of jan 1, 1970.

for example:

string time = "23:32"; string timefmt = new simpledateformat("hh:mm"); calendar todaystime = new gregoriancalendar();  todaystime.settime(timefmt.parse(time)); system.out.println(todaystime.gettime()); 

prints: thu jan 01 11:32:00 cst 1970 expected was: wed 03 11:32:00 cst 2015

i can see 1 alternative: create second gregoriancalendar todays date , set year, month , day manually todaystime via setyear(), setmonth() , setdayofmonth() hope there more elegant way that.

can me better way parse time part parsed date object without losing date part?

you can this:

date parseddate = simpledateformat.getinstance().parse(time); calendar instance = calendar.getinstance(); instance.settime( parseddate );  calendar result = calendar.getinstance(); result.set( calendar.hour_of_day, instance.get( calendar.hour_of_day ) ); result.set( calendar.minute, instance.get( calendar.minute ) );