How To Get The Date

[CuppaCoffee]

Salutations, my programming friends. It's been a while since I've made a thread. Been taking a break from life.

Quick question, how can you get Java to return the current date & time? I've heard of the Date (which has been deprecated) and Calendar classes, but you have to input information before it outputs date details to you. Is there a way for java to return the current date? Answers will be much appreciated!

[Toll]

Have a look at the API: Calendar (Java Platform SE 6)

[CuppaCoffee]

The API is very convoluted, too detailed for me to find any brief information I'm looking for. I was wondering if any members here had any tips or methods they have for doing something so simple.

[Toll]

In the third paragraph of the API, it says:

Like other locale-sensitive classes, Calendar provides a class method, getInstance, for getting a generally useful object of this type. Calendar's getInstance method returns a Calendar object whose calendar fields have been initialized with the current date and time:

Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance();

As for how to get the data out of the Calendar object, have a look at the get method.

[CuppaCoffee]

Ahh, I was looking at the .getInstance() method, but I was outputting that by itself. Using that with the .getTime() method seems to generally give me a bit of what I was looking for.. I guess API's can be helpful when looked through properly. I still think they're overly complex though.

Thanks for the help, Toll!

[gimbal2]

Been taking a break from life.

... so you were dead!?!? What was that like?

I've heard of the Date (which has been deprecated)

You are very much mistaken.

Is there a way for java to return the current date?

Of course there is; this is not the question you want to ask. You want to ask HOW so might as well ask that question right away. And since you are too impatient to take 2 minutes to scan through the javadoc, a google for "java calendar example" would have probably netted you the answer in less time it took you to post this thread.

But impatience is highly destructive to programming, I'd work on that if I were you. Or perhaps drink less coffee?

[CuppaCoffee]

Well, will you look at that. The first poor attempt at trolling I've seen on this site. I guess there's a first for everything.