Retrieve time portion of date [closed]

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How can I retrieve the time portion of a date?

Date date = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
System.out.println(dateFormat(date));

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Date date = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
String time = dateFormat.format(date)

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You won't believe:

String result = dateFormat.format(date);