How to format today's date?

Question

Hi, i am trying to get today's date (well system date) but in the next format: dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss am or pm... how can i do it?
Regards.

Answer 1

Hi this is a static method that i wrote a while back...this should be able to lead you in the right direction
    public static String getCurrentDate() {
        Date wDate = new Date();
        wDate.toString();
        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat( "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss aaa" );
        return formatter.format( wDate );
    }this will return 16/01/2002 1:13:22 PM
this is the link to The SimpleDateFormat class from Sun.
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/api/java.text.SimpleDateFormat.html
tim