get current date and time

Question

I'm kind of stuck on date and time. I want my program to create the date like this "20121217". The first 4 letters are the year, the second 2 letters are the month and the last 2 are the day. year+month+day

The time is "112233" hour+minute+second

Thanks for your help!

duffymo · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-25T11:39:36.977

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That's a formatting issue. Java uses java.util.Date and java.text.DateFormat and java.text.SimpleDateFormat for those things.

DateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd hhmmss");
dateFormatter.setLenient(false);
Date today = new Date();
String s = dateFormatter.format(today);

edited Sep 25 '15 at 11:39

answered Dec 17 '12 at 18:55

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '12 at 19:01

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You can do something like this:

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
String date = c.get(Calendar.YEAR) + c.get(Calendar.MONTH) + c.get(Calendar.DATE);
String time = c.get(Calendar.HOUR) + c.get(Calendar.MINUTE) + c.get(Calendar.SECOND);

answered Dec 17 '12 at 19:01

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Rahul · Answer 3 · 2012-12-17T19:01:41.373

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Change any specific format of time or date as you need.

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss");
     currentDateandTime = sdf.format(new Date());

edited Dec 17 '12 at 19:01

answered Dec 17 '12 at 18:56

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 13 '17 at 06:57

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For date:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
String strDate = df.format(new Date());

For time:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("hhmmss");
String strTime = df.format(new Date());

edited Sep 13 '17 at 06:57

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answered Dec 17 '12 at 19:01

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 13 '17 at 07:12

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This works,

 String currentDateTime;

 SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
 currentDateTime = sdf1.format(new Date());

answered Sep 13 '17 at 07:12

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jamis0n · Answer 6 · 2012-12-17T19:01:36.103

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What you're looking for is the SimpleDateFormat in Java... Take a look at this page.

Try this for your need:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd hhmmss");
Date parsed = format.parse(new Date());
System.out.println(parsed.toString());

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answered Dec 17 '12 at 18:56

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Mihir Patel · Answer 7 · 2016-07-14T05:27:17.740

You can use following method to get current time

 /**************************************************************
 * getCurrentTime() it will return system time
 * 
 * @return
 ****************************************************************/
public static String getCurrentTime() {     
    DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd HHmmss");
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    return dateFormat.format(cal.getTime());
}// end of getCurrentTime()

get current date and time

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