getting todays date on java

[stuckonjava]

I need the month and day in Integer form, this is what I got: sorry for the bad variable names, this was just a test

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;


public class GetCurrentDateTime {
public static void main(String[] args) {

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
//get current date time with Date()
Date date = new Date();
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(dateFormat.format(date),"/");
while(st.hasMoreTokens()){
String day = st.nextToken().toString();
String month = st.nextToken().toString();

int dayy = Integer.parseInt(day);
int monthh = Integer.parseInt(month);

Integer dayyy = new Integer(dayy);
Integer monthhh = new Integer(monthh);



when I print for example dayyy i get an error, could someone explain how I over come this

[gauravfzd]

I need the month and day in Integer form, this is what I got: sorry for the bad variable names, this was just a test

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;


public class GetCurrentDateTime {
public static void main(String[] args) {

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
//get current date time with Date()
Date date = new Date();
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(dateFormat.format(date),"/");
while(st.hasMoreTokens()){
String day = st.nextToken().toString();
String month = st.nextToken().toString();

int dayy = Integer.parseInt(day);
int monthh = Integer.parseInt(month);

Integer dayyy = new Integer(dayy);
Integer monthhh = new Integer(monthh);



when I print for example dayyy i get an error, could someone explain how I over come this

Try using the Calendar class (I suppose it is in java.util package well I don't remember)to extract days and month from the date object. It extracts months from 0(January) to 11(December).
Look for the Java SE API to find the appropriate methods.....

[wsaryada]

It give you an error because it failed to get the next token on the second loop. The token will only have three values, date, month and year. You take two tokens on the first loop, this left one token. On the next loop you tried to read another two token but only one is available.

Btw, using the Calender object can make your code simpler to get the individual value of a date. One note that the Calender object month started with month = 0 for January.

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
int date = Calendar.get(Calendar.DATE);
...
...

[stuckonjava]

It give you an error because it failed to get the next token on the second loop. The token will only have three values, date, month and year. You take two tokens on the first loop, this left one token. On the next loop you tried to read another two token but only one is available.

Btw, using the Calender object can make your code simpler to get the individual value of a date. One note that the Calender object month started with month = 0 for January.

Could you explain how I use the calendar class, sorry I'm a bit confused

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
int date = Calendar.get(Calendar.DATE);
...
...

Hi thanks for this, sorted all my problems out but one. I am now using the calendar object. Basically I have three combo boxes, one is integer from 1-31, the other is integer form 1970-2012 and the other is string from jan to dec. I have set the year and date to the current date however the month is stuck on"Jan" could you help me change the default month to to the current month?

Thanks

No worries, all Sorted, i was using setSelectedItem instead of setSelectedIndex - my bad. Thanks

[gauravfzd]

try to set the selected index of the combobox as the current month you are getting from the Calendar class.

If you are not a die hard fan of combo box for picking dates, you can use JXDatePicker class available in SwingX library and can download from here
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