Getting Current Date and Time in Java

This tutorial shows how to get the current date and time in Java. The standard Java classes we can use are java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar and the new java 8 java.time.LocalDateTime and java.time.ZonedDateTime. You could also use external libraries such as org.joda.time.DateTime.

java.util.Date

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = new Date();
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(date));

java.util.Calendar

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(cal.getTime()));

java.time.LocalDateTime

DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.now();
System.out.println(dateTimeFormat.format(localDateTime));

org.joda.time.DateTime

DateTimeFormatter dateFormat = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
DateTime now = new DateTime();
System.out.println(dateFormat.print(now));

Current Date/Time in Java

package com.memorynotfound.birthdate;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class CalculateBirthDatePlainJava {

    public static void main(String... args){
        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
        Date date = new Date();
        System.out.println(dateFormat.format(date));

        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println(dateFormat.format(cal.getTime()));

        DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
        LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.now();
        System.out.println(dateTimeFormat.format(localDateTime));
    }

}

2016/10/27 10:06:44
2016/10/27 10:06:44
2016/10/27 10:06:44

References

• Date JavaDoc
• Calendar JavaDoc
• SimpleDateFormat JavaDoc
• LocaleDateTime JavaDoc
• DateTimeFormatter JavaDoc
• Joda DateTime JavaDoc

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