How to create date in the format like (Fri Oct 31 08:46:27 PM PKT 2008)

[Basit56]

Hi to all :),
Hope you all will be fine.I want to ask if i want to create date in the format like Fri Oct 31 08:46:27 PM PKT 2008 then how can i do it.
Also how can i create timestamp with the newly creating date.

Thank you.

[Addez]

If you made a file then it got this method:

setLastModified(long time)

set the time to the new "last edited" time
It should work..

[masijade]

See the API docs SimpleDateFormat.

[pansylea]

try

System.out.println(" 1. " + now.toString());

OR

System.out.println("10. " + DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(
            DateFormat.LONG, DateFormat.LONG).format(now));

[pansylea]

for Timestamp

public class MainClass {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    java.util.Date today = new java.util.Date();
    System.out.println(new java.sql.Timestamp(today.getTime()));

  }

}

[Basit56]

Hi,
Thanks for your replies, these all help me a lot :). I created date like this

        String pattern = "EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss a z yyyy";

        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
        
        System.out.println(format.format(new Date()));

And the output is

Wed Dec 16 04:31:03 PM GMT+05:00 2009

But i want that instead of GMT+05:00 it shows PKT means Pakistan time. All is fine only GMT+05:00 should be replace with PKT. How can i do it.

Thank you.

[masijade]

reread reply #3

[Basit56]

Hi,
Hope you all will be fine.I did, i also tried

System.out.println("10. " + DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(
            DateFormat.LONG, DateFormat.LONG).format(now));

but the GMT is still there and when i check the timezone it also gave me GMT instead of PKT any ways leave it.

Now i also asked about the timestamps and Pansylea replied that try

    Date today = new Date();
    System.out.println(new java.sql.Timestamp(today.getTime()));

But i got timestamp in the form

2009-12-17 15:39:06.777
and i want it in the form like below

1225467987

i.e., 10 character long.How can i do it.

Thank you.

[masijade]

And did you notice the "setTimezone" method of SimpleDateFormat?

Edit: As, obviously, the time will be printed with whatever timezone applies to SimpleDateFormat (which is not, at all, dependant on that which was in the parse string, and which defaults to the system timezone).