How to get today's Date?

Question

In other words, I want functionality that provides Joda-Time:

today = today.withTime(0, 0, 0, 0);

but without Joda-Time, only with java.util.Da

Answer 1

Code To Get Today's date in any specific Format

You can define the desired format in SimpleDateFormat instance to get the date in that specific formate

 DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        Date date = cal.getTime();
        String todaysdate = dateFormat.format(date);
         System.out.println("Today's date : " + todaysdate);

Follow below links to see the valid date format combination.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

CODE : To get x days ahead or Previous from Today's date, To get the past date or Future date.

For Example :

Today date : 11/27/2018

xdayFromTodaysDate = 2 to get date as 11/29/2018

xdayFromTodaysDate = -2 to get date as 11/25/2018

  public String getAniversaryDate(int xdayFromTodaysDate ){

        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        Date date = cal.getTime();
        cal.setTime(date);
        cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,xdayFromTodaysDate);
        date = cal.getTime();
        String aniversaryDate = dateFormat.format(date);
        LOGGER.info("Today's date : " + todaysdate);
          return aniversaryDate;

    }

CODE : To get x days ahead or Previous from a Given date

  public String getAniversaryDate(String givendate, int xdayFromTodaysDate ){


        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
        try {
            Date date = dateFormat.parse(givendate);
            cal.setTime(date);
            cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,xdayFromTodaysDate);
            date = cal.getTime();
            String aniversaryDate = dateFormat.format(date);
            LOGGER.info("aniversaryDate : " + aniversaryDate);
            return aniversaryDate;
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }

    }