title: Creating a custom Date object from Calendar?
body: <p>I need to create a custom Date object. I get a user input in 24 hr format like hh:mm i.e. 17:49 hrs.
  I want to set the hours and minutes as 17 and 49 respectively keeping other details like month , year , day as per the current time.For e.g if today is Dec 16,2014 and the time is 16:00 hrs , then i want a date object as Dec 16,2014 with time as 17:49 hrs. I know i can do this using deprecated apis , however i do not want to use them.I need the date object because i need to pass it to a java timer as java timer does not support any calendar object.</p>
  
  <p>The user input comes as a string and i can parse that string using <code>new SimpleDateFormat(HH:mm)</code> contructor.
  I tried using the Calendar.set apis but had no success.</p>
  
  <p>Could some one give some direction on how to proceed.</p>
  
  <p>PS. Sorry , i can't use Joda time :) </p>