How to take date in Java??

[Bartec]

Hi!

I have quite stupid problem... I don't know how to take a date from Java. I know I should use Date class for example:

......
      Date dd = new Date();
      dd.getDate(); //<--------- this is not available.
      dd.getTime(); //<----------this is available but the
                    // I receive quite stupid format

//Works only this (example):
  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, new Date().toString(),
                                     "Test",JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);

So if anybody have some solution please response my thread.
Thanks for any help

Best regards

Bartec

 

[Diancecht]

What do you mean bu "stupid format"?

Maybe you should take a look at Calendar class and System.currentTimeMillis method.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[sedj]

stupid format" ?

Perhaps you explain what would be a "sensible format" for you !
It helps when posting questions to explain clearly what you have, and what you wish - giving examples if possible.

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[Bartec]

Explain "stupid format"

123232455664 //<-------quite strange??

 

[Bartec]

hmmmmm

Maybe I convert long to string in bad way??

long l =  System.currentTimeMillis();
          
          String str =  Long.toString(l);

Maybe it's not correct??

 

[sedj]

Date.getTime() returns the number of milliseconds since January 1st 1970 - this is standard in computing.

As I said before : What format do you actually want ???

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[Bartec]

Actually I need time format: hh:mm:ss
date format: dd:MM:YYYY

 

[sedj]

Finally, it only took 6 posts to get what your real problem is !

Use the java.text.SimpleDateFormat class, here is an example :


SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String formattedDate = sdf.format(new java.util.Date());

See the API docs for more information.

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