JAVA Program to Display Time in Words

 Question: Write a program that accepts time in the format "hours:minutes" in String Format. Accepts hours between 1 to 12 (both inclusive) and seconds between 0 to 59 (both inclusive) and prints out the time they represent in words.

In this post, I will share the JAVA program to display time in words.

Click Here to See how to say time in English (Examples with References)

Sample Input and Output:

Input 1:

Enter Time-> 3:0

Output 1:

Three O' Clock

Input 2:

Enter Time-> 7:29

Output 2:

Twenty Nine minutes past Seven

Input 3:

Enter Time-> 6:34

Output 3:

Twenty Six minutes to Seven

Input 4:

Enter Time-> 12:1

Output 4:

One minutes past Twelve

Input 5:

Enter Time-> 12:45

Output 5:

Quarter to One

Code:

import java.io.*;
public class English_Time {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String t = "Twenty ";// storing String data type
        /** String a[] contains numbers in words */
        String a[] = { "", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine", "ten", "Eleven",
                "Twelve", "Thirteen", "Fourteen", "Fifteen", "Sixteen", "Seventeen", "Eighteen", "Nineteen", t,
                t + "One", t + "Two", t + "Three", t + "Four", t + "Five", t + "Six", t + "Seven", t + "Eight",
                t + "Nine" };
        /** String s accepts Time in format HH:MM */
        System.out.print("Enter Time-> ");
        String s = in.readLine();
        /** int h and int m stores hours & minutes respectively from String s */
        int h = Integer.parseInt(s.substring(0, s.indexOf(':')));
        int m = Integer.parseInt(s.substring(s.indexOf(':') + 1));
        /** if m is equal to 0 then the condition written below will run */
        if (m == 0)
            System.out.println(a[h] + " O' Clock");// displaying Time when m=0
        /** if m is equal to 30 then the condition written below will run */
        if (m == 30)
            System.out.println("Half past " + a[h]);// displaying Time when m=30
        /** if m is equal to 15 then the condition written below will run */
        if (m == 15)
            System.out.println("Quarter past " + a[h]);// displaying Time when m=15
        /** displaying Time when 0<m<30 but m does not equal to 15 */
        else if (m > 0 && m < 30)
            System.out.println(a[m] + " minutes past " + a[h]);
        /**
         * if h is equal to 12 then h=0 because after twelve o’clock, One o’clock comes
         */
        if (h == 12)
            h = 0;
        /** if m is equal to 45 then the condition written below will run */
        if (m == 45)
            System.out.println("Quarter to " + a[h + 1]);// displaying Time when m=45
        /** displaying Time when 30<m<60 but m does not equal to 45 */
        else if (m > 30 && m < 60)
            System.out.println(a[60 - m] + " minutes to " + a[h + 1]);
    }
}

Output Window:

Output Window

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