title: Getting the current time and date on a 24 hour timescale
body: <p>I am having problems getting the current time on a 24 hour timescale. As far as I know, "HH" should represent the current hour on a 24 hour timescale, however, for some reason, "HH" is not interpreted at all. This is why the following line of code outputs something like <em>"HH:50:06 Uhr, 02. Sep."</em>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DateFormat.format("HH:mm:ss 'Uhr', dd. MMM", new Date());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Using "hh" works, however, this will output the time on a 12 hour scale, which is not what I'd like to do.</p>
  
  <p>Help's appreciated!</p>