posted 21 years ago
That really depends on what you want to do with that Date object. The Date class has a toString() method which displays the date it contains, but you can't modify how this date if formatted using only the Date class. If you want to format it to a specific user's taste or to some general format of your own, you'll have to use the SimpleDateFormat class. However, if you don't need to display it in any special way, you won't need that class.
Corey