Kotlin extract time form the date

I have a date with that format: 2027-02-14T14:20:00.000

I would like to take hours and minutes from it like in that case: 14:20

I was trying to do something like this:

val firstDate = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.US).parse("2027-02-14T14:20:00.000")
val firstTime = SimpleDateFormat("H:mm").format(firstDate)

but I got crash java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date

How to take hours and minutes from that string ?

A RECOMMENDED WAY

In case you can use java.time, here's a commented example:

import java.time.LocalDateTime
import java.time.LocalTime
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter

fun main() {
    // example String
    val input = "2027-02-14T14:20:00.000"
    // directly parse it to a LocalDateTime
    val localDateTime = LocalDateTime.parse(input)
    // print the (intermediate!) result
    println(localDateTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME))
    // then extract the time part
    val localTime = localDateTime.toLocalTime()
    // print that keeping the full format
    println(localTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_TIME))
}

This outputs 2 values, the intermediate LocalDateTime parsed and the extracted LocalTime:

2027-02-14T14:20:00
14:20:00

NOT RECOMMENDED while still possible:

Still use the outdated API (might be necessary when it comes to large amounts of legacy code, which I doubt you will find written in Kotlin):

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

fun main() {
    val firstDate = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS")
                               .parse("2027-02-14T14:20:00.000")
    val firstTime = SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss").format(firstDate)
    println(firstTime)
}

Output:

14:20:00