Change Date for Applet

Question

Hi, this is probably really easy and I may not be understanding it, I am trying to design an applet and all i want to do is change the format of the Date I'm inserting into the applet. I looked at the tutorials but that seems to be a lot of extra code just to change the format.
Does anyone know of a quick way to create an instance of a Date object and also switch the format?
     Author: Logan
     Class: Intro to Java
     Project: Class Project 2
     Description: Applet Splash Screen
//Import Statements
import java.util.Date;
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class AppletProj2 extends Applet
     public void paint(Graphics g)
          Date currentDate = new Date();
          g.drawString(currentDate.toString(),100,100);
}//end class AppletProj2

Answer 1

java.text.SimpleDateFormat is not hard to use and doesn't require a lot of additional code. It IS the solution to this problem and you should use it.