Time method

[carderne]

I'm busy writing a program that creates a database of all you songs and movies.
It displays your songs in a list with Track name, Artist, Album and date added. I could have it so that it asks the date each time, but this is a bit tedious, so I was wondering which method I could use to get the date and store as a String...

A bit example code explaining it would be great.

Thanks

[hardwired]

Code:

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;

public class GettingTheDate {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy");
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        Date now = calendar.getTime();
        String toStore = df.format(now);
        System.out.printf("now = %s%ntoStore = %s%n", now, toStore);
    }
}

[carderne]

Ok. sweet. Thanks for your help. That should do it. And just one more little question. When I output the songs in columns (currently just using System.out.println), is there any way besides tabs to keep the words properly lined up? I've had to make checks that add extra tabs if the words are below a certain length... Thanks again

[hardwired]

Code:

private String space(int n) {
    String s = "";
    for(int j = 0; j < n; j++)
        s += " ";
    return s;
}

[carderne]

Ok, thanks. But then I still have to specify how long I want the spaces to be. Here's my code for the output part:

Code:

System.out.println("\n\n\n#\tTrack\t\t\tArtist\t\t\tAlbum\t\t\tDate Added\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
for (int i = 0; i <= songNum; i++) System.out.println(i + "\t" + song[i][0] + "\t\t\t" + song[i][1] + "\t\t\t" + song[i][2] + "\t\t\t" + song[i][3]);

I had to add checks earlier in the program to add/remove extra tabs depending on the length of the word...

Thanks for your help

[carderne]

Oops. Sorry, my bad. Thinking like a idiot. Just needed to minus the word length from the max length to get the int parameter.
Shot!