To get the current time

Question

Hi All,
I wanted to know if there is anything like getcurrtime() in JAVA to get the current time.
Right now what i am doing is creating a new Date object and then calling getTime() on that new object.
One more question. when you call the getTime() function on an object does it give the time of creating of the object or the current
time.
Thanks in advance,
Amitabh

Answer 1

Hi All,
I wanted to know if there is anything like
getcurrtime() in JAVA to get the current time.
Right now what i am doing is creating a new Date
object and then calling getTime() on that new object.
One more question. when you call the getTime()
function on an object does it give the time of
creating of the object or the current
time.
Thanks in advance,
AmitabhHola!
You can use
long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
to get the current time in milli seconds (since 1970) :)
If you need a formatted String with the time, you can use:
java.text.DateFormat df = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss"); // "HH:mm:ss", for example
String formattedTime = df.format(new Date());
And when you use the method "getTime()", it returns the Date creation time (because the object is initialized to that time when created)
Hasta pronto!