get the system date in the same format as the system [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can't retrieve the date format used in your operating system using Java but you can format the date based on the locale using SimpleDateFormat class.

Refer Doc: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Answer 2

We were using following approach for this

1. Identify the timezone of the system
2. have a dateformat mapping to preferred timezone
3. use the dateformat from the mapping to display the date.

Step 2 was basically a properties file, where we mapped the timezone and preferred date format.

Answer 3

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyy");
Date date = new Date();

and then simply print

dateFormat.format(date);

Answer 4

Use SimpleDateFormat.toLocalizedPattern()

From the Java Docs:

Returns a localized pattern string describing this date format.

Answer 5

public static String getDateFromLongformat(long dateInLong) {

    Date date = new Date(dateInLong);
    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    String dateText = df.format(date);

    return dateText;
}