How to get the current time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:Sec.Millisecond format in Java?

Question

The code below gives me the current time. But it does not tell anything about milliseconds.

public static String getCurrentTimeStamp() {
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Answer 1

To complement the above answers, here is a small working example of a program that prints the current time and date, including milliseconds.

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class test {
    public static void main(String argv[]){
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
        Date now = new Date();
        String strDate = sdf.format(now);
        System.out.println(strDate);
    }
}

Answer 2

I would use something like this:

String.format("%tF %<tT.%<tL", dateTime);

Variable dateTime could be any date and/or time value, see JavaDoc for Formatter.

Answer 3

Ans:

DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
ZonedDateTime start = Instant.now().atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault());
String startTimestamp = start.format(dateFormatter);

Answer 4

try this:-

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
Date date = new Date();
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(date));

or

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(cal.getTime()));

Answer 5

The doc in Java 8 names it fraction-of-second , while in Java 6 was named millisecond. This brought me to confusion

Answer 6

java.text (prior to java 8)

public static ThreadLocal<DateFormat> dateFormat = new ThreadLocal<DateFormat>() {
    protected DateFormat initialValue() {
        return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
    };
};

...
dateFormat.get().format(new Date());

java.time

public static DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");

...
dateTimeFormatter.format(LocalDateTime.now());