How to get year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds of the current moment in Java?

Question

How can I get the year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds of the current moment in Java? I would like to have them as Strings.

Answer 1

Look at the API documentation for the java.util.Calendar class and its derivatives (you may be specifically interested in the GregorianCalendar class).