Print out a Date in a format I want

Question

Now if I print out a Date object, I will get something like "Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2005", but what I want is "1/1/2005". I tried to use the get methods to get the month, day, and year so that I can put them in a format I want. However, all the get methods have been deprecated. What will be a possible(maybe easy as well?) way to do it? Thanks.

Answer 1

Something like:
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("d/M/yyyy");
        Date now = new Date();
        System.out.println(df.format(now));
        // new for Java 5.0 - almost the same format
        System.out.printf("%te/%<tm/%<tY%n", now);
}Note: If you're using Java 5.0, then you can use the new printf method for PrintWriters. However, this doesn't appear to have a formatting token for single digit months.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html#dt
Cheers, Neil