Java is a most powerful programming language, by which we can do many things and Java is an industry preferable language. So it has a huge field of features. Here we discuss one of the best features of Java, that is how to represent the current date and time using Java.
There are many ways to do this, there are many classes by which it can be possible to display the current Date and Time.
Method 1: Using Date class
There is a class called Date class which can represent the current date and time in GMT form. We can get the IST form by adding 5 hours and 30 minutes to the GMT form. This class comes under the util package of Java.
Implementation:
Java
// Java Program to Display Current Date and Timeimport java.util.*;public class GFG { public static void main(String args[]) { Date current_Date = new Date(); //"Date" class //"current_Date" is Date object System.out.println(current_Date); // print the time and date }} |
Fri Nov 20 07:12:42 UTC 2020
Conversion of GMT form to IST using two classes called TimeZone, it also comes under util package of Java, and SimpleDateFormat, which comes under Text package of Java.
Implementation:
Java
// Java Program to Display Current Date and Timeimport java.text.*;import java.util.*;public class GFG { public static void main(String args[]) { SimpleDateFormat formatDate = new SimpleDateFormat( "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss z"); //"SimpleDateFormat" class initialize with object //"formatDate" this class acceptes the format of // date and time as ""dd/MM/yyyy" and "HH:mm:ss z"" //"z" use for print the time zone Date date = new Date(); // initialize "Date" class formatDate.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("IST")); // converting to IST or format the Date as IST System.out.println(formatDate.format(date)); // print formatted date and time }} |
20/11/2020 12:42:41 IST
Method 2: Using LocalDateTime class
There is a class called LocalDateTime class which can also represent the current date and time in GMT form. We can get the IST form by adding 5 hours and 30 minutes to the GMT form. This class comes under the Time package of Java.
Implementation:
Java
// Java Program to Display Current Date and Timeimport java.time.*;public class MyClass { public static void main(String args[]) { System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now()); //"LocalDateTime" is the class //"now()" is a method, represent the // current date and time }} |
2020-11-20T07:12:43.158549
We can convert this GMT form to IST using a class called ZonedDateTime, it also comes under Time package of Java. This class accepts a time by specifying a time zone and convert it to a specific time zone. Here we convert the time to Asia/Kolkata form.
Implementation:
Java
// Java Program to Display Current Date and Timeimport java.util.*;import java.time.*;public class GFG { public static void main(String[] args) { Date date = new Date(); LocalDateTime d = LocalDateTime.now(); ZonedDateTime UTCtime = d.atZone(ZoneId.of("UTC")); //"d" is the current date and //"ZonedDateTime" accepts "d" as UTC //"atZone" specifies the time zone // converting to IST ZonedDateTime ISTtime = UTCtime.withZoneSameInstant( ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata")); //"withZoneSameInstant" convert the time // to given time zone System.out.println(ISTtime); // print the time and date }} |
2020-11-20T12:42:42.723246+05:30[Asia/Kolkata]
Method 3: Using Clock class
There is a class called Clock class which can also represent the current date and time in UTC form. This class comes under the Time package of Java.
Implementation:
Java
/*package whatever //do not write package name here */import java.time.*;class GFG { public static void main (String[] args) { System.out.println(Clock.systemUTC().instant()); //"Clock" is the class //"systemUTC()" is the method which represent the time in UTC form }} |
2020-11-20T07:12:37.598048Z
