How to get the total number of minutes in the day so far?

Question

How do you get the total number of minutes in the day so far in Java (Android)? Is this possible? For example, if it was 12:37am, I would want it to return int 37 (37 minutes so far that day). Or if it was 1:41am, I would want it to return int 101 (101 minutes so far that day), or if it 12:20pm, it would return int 740 (740 total minutes that day).

Answer 1

I actually used the Calendar class to figure this out.

Here is the code, with currentMinuteOfDay being the total number of minutes.

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
        int hour = now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
        int minute = now.get(Calendar.MINUTE);

        int currentMinuteOfDay = ((hour * 60) + minute);