12:Xx Shown as 00:Xx in Simpledateformat.Format("Hh:Mm:Ss")

12:xx shown as 00:xx in SimpleDateFormat.format(hh:mm:ss)

First a couple of formatters like yours, only using DateTimeFormatter from java.time, the modern Java date and time API:

private static DateTimeFormatter dtfOld = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
private static DateTimeFormatter dtfNew = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");

Two things to note: (1) Declare the formatters in the logical order, the order in which you are going to use them. Using the opposite order in the question confused me, and I’m unsure whether it confused yourself too. (2) In dtfOld use uppercase HH for hour of day in the interval 00 through 23. Lowercase hh is for hour within AM or PM from 01 through 12 (in this case the same format pattern letters apply for SimpleDateFormat and DateTimeFormatter; there are differences, though). Now the rest is pretty boring, only simpler than your code:

    LocalDateTime parsed = LocalDateTime.parse("2017-03-12 12:33:33", dtfOld);
    System.out.println(parsed);
    LocalDateTime dateTime = parsed.plusSeconds(10);
    System.out.println(dateTime);
    System.out.println(dateTime.format(dtfNew));

Output is:

2017-03-12T12:33:33
2017-03-12T12:33:43
12-03-2017 12:33:43

I am recommending java.time. The old date and time classes that you used — SimpleDateFormat, Calendar and Date — are long outdated. It’s not only in this case that the modern classes allow for simpler code, it’s quite common. I find java.time generally so much nicer to work with.

What went wrong in your code?

I gave a hint already: Lowercase hh is for hour within AM or PM from 01 through 12. When you don’t supply and parse an AM/PM marker, AM is used as the default. And 12:33:33 AM means a little more than half an hour past midnight, and is rendered as 00:33:33 on a 24 hour clock.

The times from 13:00 up to 23:59? They don’t exist in AM. Apparently SimpleDateFormat doesn’t care and just extrapolates from the hours from 01 through 11 and therefore happens to give you the time you had expected. There’s a trick to tell it not to; but I wouldn’t want to bother, I’d rather not use the class at all.

Link

Oracle tutorial: Date Time explaining how to use java.time.

Java format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSz to yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
SimpleDateFormat output = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date d = sdf.parse(time);
String formattedTime = output.format(d);

This works. You have to use two SimpleDateFormats, one for input and one for output, but it will give you just what you are wanting.

Java SimpleDateFormat(yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z') gives timezone as IST

You haven't set the timezone only added a Z to the end of the date/time, so it will look like a GMT date/time but this doesn't change the value.

Set the timezone to GMT and it will be correct.

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

Why I can't parse this date format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ?

You should use Z the same way you use T for the parser to recognize the character in format

val stringDate = "2021-12-16T16:42:00.000Z"
val sdf = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'")
var consultationDate = sdf.parse(stringDate)

Java SimpleDateFormat for time zone with a colon separator?

JodaTime's DateTimeFormat to rescue:

String dateString = "2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00";
String pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(pattern);
DateTime dateTime = dtf.parseDateTime(dateString);
System.out.println(dateTime); // 2010-03-01T04:00:00.000-04:00

(time and timezone difference in toString() is just because I'm at GMT-4 and didn't set locale explicitly)

If you want to end up with java.util.Date just use DateTime#toDate():

Date date = dateTime.toDate();

Wait for JDK7 (JSR-310) JSR-310, the referrence implementation is called ThreeTen (hopefully it will make it into Java 8) if you want a better formatter in the standard Java SE API. The current SimpleDateFormat indeed doesn't eat the colon in the timezone notation.

Update: as per the update, you apparently don't need the timezone. This should work with SimpleDateFormat. Just omit it (the Z) in the pattern.

String dateString = "2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00";
String pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
Date date = sdf.parse(dateString);
System.out.println(date); // Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 BOT 2010

(which is correct as per my timezone)

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