How can I get current date in Android?

Question

I wrote the following code

Date d = new Date();
CharSequence s  = DateFormat.format(\"MMMM d, yyyy \", d.getTime());

But is asking me para

Answer 1

A simple tweak to Paresh's solution:

Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
String formattedDate = df.format(date);

Answer 2

This is nothing to do with android as it is java based so you could use

private String getDateTime() { 
   DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
   Date date = new Date(); 
   return dateFormat.format(date); 
}

Answer 3

just one line code to get simple Date format :

SimpleDateFormat.getDateInstance().format(Date())

output : 18-May-2020

SimpleDateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().format(Date())

output : 18-May-2020 11:00:39 AM

SimpleDateFormat.getTimeInstance().format(Date())

output : 11:00:39 AM

Hope this answer is enough to get this Date and Time Format ... :)

Answer 4

try this,

SimpleDateFormat timeStampFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmssSS");
Date myDate = new Date();
String filename = timeStampFormat.format(myDate);

Answer 5

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();      
Calendar dt = Calendar.getInstance(); 
dt.clear();
dt.set(cal.get(Calendar.YEAR), cal.get(Calendar.MONTH),cal.get(Calendar.DATE)); 
return dt.getTime();        

Answer 6

The below code displays the both time and date

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.getTime().toString();