Date and Time

[Peter Phung]

Just a simple question
Can anyone tell me how to get the date and time of the system?

[Rene Liebmann]

Hi Pete,
when you initialize a Date with an empty constructor (Date date = new Date();) then it is initialized with the current Date and Time on your computer. Is this what you mean?
Rene
[ July 10, 2002: Message edited by: Rene Liebmann ]

[Peter Phung]

Yeah, sort of. I need to enter the date and time into a database. So i need to be able to return the date and time in a specific format i.e. if the date and time was July 10th 2002 9:45 i would need the:
date : 2002-07-10
time : 09:45:00
the api isn't very clear on how to achieve this. Can you help?

[Rene Larsen]

Try this link:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
/Rene

[Rene Liebmann]

Yes, SimpleDateFormat could be one solution. Another Possibility is the Calendar (GregorianCalendar). If you create a new GregorianCalendar then it already is initialized with the current time. Then the Calendar object has lots of methods to get what you want. Therefore the API has a good example.
Good luck

[Mahesh Mamani]

Hi,
When using the Calendar class, do take care of this functionality regd. month...
Use this URL for more info

MSM

[Peter Phung]

I used SimpleDateFormat because that's all i needed.
Thanks to both Rene's, your help was much appreciated.