How to convert current date into string in java?

Question

How do I convert the current date into string in Java?

Answer 1

String date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy").format(new Date());

Answer 2

Most of the answers are/were valid. The new JAVA API modification for Date handling made sure that some earlier ambiguity in java date handling is reduced.

You will get a deprecated message for similar calls.

new Date() // deprecated

The above call had the developer to assume that a new Date object will give the Date object with current timestamp. This behavior is not consistent across other Java API classes.

The new way of doing this is using the Calendar Instance.

new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()

Here too the naming convention is not perfect but this is much organised. For a person like me who has a hard time mugging up things but would never forget something if it sounds/appears logical, this is a good approach.

This is more synonymous to real life

1. We get a Calendar object and we look for the time in it. ( you must be wondering no body gets time from a Calendar, that is why I said it is not perfect.But that is a different topic altogether)
2. Then we want the date in a simple Text format so we use a SimpleDateFormat utility class which helps us in formatting the Date from Step 1. I have used yyyy, MM ,dd as parameters in the format. Supported date format parameters

One more way to do this is using Joda time API

new DateTime().toString("yyyy-MM-dd")

or the much obvious

new DateTime(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()).toString("yyyy-MM-dd")

both will return the same result.

Answer 3

// GET DATE & TIME IN ANY FORMAT
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public static final String DATE_FORMAT_NOW = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";

public static String now() {
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_NOW);
return sdf.format(cal.getTime());
}

Taken from here

Answer 4

public static Date getDateByString(String dateTime) {
        if(dateTime==null || dateTime.isEmpty()) {
            return null;
        }
        else{
            String modified = dateTime + ".000+0000";
            DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
            Date dateObj = new Date();
            Date dateObj1 = new Date();
            try {
                if (dateTime != null) {
                    dateObj = formatter.parse(modified);
                }

            } catch (ParseException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            return dateObj;
        }

    }

Answer 5

For time as YYYY-MM-dd

String time = new DateTime( yourData ).toString("yyyy-MM-dd");

And the Library of DateTime is:

import org.joda.time.DateTime;

Answer 6

Use a DateFormat implementation; e.g. SimpleDateFormat.

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String data = df.format(new Date());