Pls help! Date looks wrong

Question

Hi! I have a date that I have to print out. When I do a System.out.println it shows the date as - Mon Nov 04 14:36:49 GMT+00:00 2002. This is like, totally wrong! I want it to show as - 04/11/2002. I looked at the DateFormat thing but every time I try to use it, it says 'class java.text.DateFormat is abstract'. So like, what am I supposed to do?
Thanx!
JS

Answer 1

Hey JS
To use DateFormat you need to get a concrete implementation, (don't worry about what that means, you've got enough to worry about trying to get this done before Richard & Judy starts).
Try something like:
import java.text.*;
import java.util.Date;
DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
System.out.println(df.format(new Date));
..Enjoy the bar.