Getting year, month and date

Question

I am getting the current year, month and date as follows:
public void setDate(Date date) {
String strDate = "";
//year
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
strDate += cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
//month
strDate += cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
//date
strDate += cal.get(Calendar.DATE);
this.date = strDate;
}This gives me the date in teh format yyyymd.
i.e for Mar 5 2007, it returns 200735
How can it retrieve it in yyyymmdd format?
i.e. Mar 5 2007 must be 20070305

Answer 1

use the function:
private String getTwoNumberFormat(int i){
     if (i<10)
          return "0"+i;
     else
          return ""+i;
}and then call
//month
strDate += getTwoNumberFormat(cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1);or use SimpleDateFormat :)