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[William Barnes]

This works:

Date dNow = new Date() ;
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd yyyy") ;
System.out.println("Date is: " + formatter.format( dNow)) ;

But trying to set the date to something tells me I am using deprecated methods.
So I try and use GregorianCalendar but than I don't know how to get back to SimpleDateFormat or DateFormat to be able to print it out as "Month Day Year".

[Jamie Robertson]

The three lines of code you have posted do not give any compile warnings and work as anticipated. Did you leave out some other code? Just for reference, this is how you get a date object from a Calendar/GregorianCalendar object:

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set( 2002, 6, 26 );
//java.util.Date date = c.getTime(); // if needed
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd yyyy") ;
System.out.println("Date is: " + formatter.format( c.getTime() ) ) ;

Jamie

[William Barnes]

I stated that the code I posted worked.
You answered my question when you showed me how to get the 'date' object using 'getTime()', thanks.

[William Barnes]

And I quickly notice that month 1 is February, not January. Wow that is dumb.

[Jamie Robertson]

Originally posted by William Barnes:
And I quickly notice that month 1 is February, not January. Wow that is dumb.

yeah, I used to catch myself doing that too. So, now I exclusively use the static field Calendar.DECEMBER... etc to avoid forgetting.

[Thomas Paul]

It's the old array issue... create an array of month names and then use the month to get them. If the month is 1-12 then you have to subtract one. Since the months are 0-11, you don't have to subtract one. I'm sure Java does this because all the other languages do it.