How to get the current time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:Sec.Millisecond format in android

Question

The code below gives me the current time. But it does not tell anything about milliseconds.

public static String getCurrentTimeStamp() {
    SimpleDateFormat sdfDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");//dd/MM/yyyy
    Date now = new Date();
    String strDate = sdfDate.format(now);
    return strDate;
}

Answer 1

public static String getCurrentTimeStamp() {
    SimpleDateFormat sdfDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
    Date now = new Date();
    String strDate = sdfDate.format(now);
    return strDate;
}

Answer 2

USe 'S' to get milliseconds

public static String getCurrentTimeStamp() {
    SimpleDateFormat sdfDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss S");//dd/MM/yyyy
    Date now = new Date();
    String strDate = sdfDate.format(now);
    return strDate;
}

Answer 3

use this code i hope this will be help to you

String strDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());

Answer 4

Try this:

 public static String getCurrentTimeStamp() {
     SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
     Date now = new Date();
     String strDate = sdfDate.format(now);
     return strDate; 
 }

Answer 5

Try this code

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");