Timer countdown is negative

Timer countdown is negative - java

I have a code of which is used to create a 24 hour countdown.
This code checks if a "date" file exists and if it doesn't it creates one, which contains the date and time in 24 hourse/a day. It then gets the current time and compares the two, to create a countdown from the current date, to the date in the document.
This makes it possible to save the timer and check how far it has come even though the code is "turned off". The only issue is the fact that sometimes the timer turns negative. Like if I run the code from the start with no "date" file created on Monday, right before midnight, lets say Monday at half past eleven at night. Then if I stop the code and run it again when the current date has passed midnight, so it is actually Tuesday, but there is still missing up to 23 hours before it hits the actual goal timer. If this is the case, the time left in the countdown is negative. Like it would show "-1day 23hours 60minutes and 60seconds remaining". But if as an example it is run from scratch past midnight on Tuesday and then relaunch after 30 minutes the same day, there is no issue.
I hope you can understand what the issue is, it is slightly hard to express through text. But I have attached the whole code of mine, which is the exact one I am using and of which is having that issue. The code has comments for every actions happening, so it should be rather easy to understand.
static File dFileD = new File("date.txt");
static String date = "";
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
Timer tickTock = new Timer();
TimerTask tickTockTask = new TimerTask(){
public void run(){
try {
timFunRun(); //Timer calls method to start the countdown
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
tickTock.schedule(tickTockTask, 1000, 1000);
}
static void timFunRun() throws ParseException {
if (!dFileD.exists()){ //if it doesn't exist, first part
//Get current date and time
Calendar startDat = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println("Current date: " + startDat.getTime());
//Get that current date and time and then add 1 day
Calendar todAdd = Calendar.getInstance();
todAdd.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
System.out.println("Date in 1 day: " + todAdd.getTime());
//Create a format for sending date to text file
SimpleDateFormat formDat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");
String formatted = formDat.format(todAdd.getTime());
System.out.println("Formatted: " + formatted);
try{
PrintWriter dW = new PrintWriter("date.txt");
dW.println(formatted);
dW.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
System.out.println(formDat.parse(formatted));
} else { //if it does exist, second part
//Get current date and time
Calendar currentDeT = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println("Current date: " + currentDeT.getTime());
SimpleDateFormat formDat2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");
Date dateFroText = null; //Get the "goal" date
try {
Scanner dateRead = new Scanner(dFileD);
while (dateRead.hasNextLine()) {
date = dateRead.nextLine();
dateFroText = formDat2.parse(date);
System.out.println("Date from text new format: " + dateFroText);
}
dateRead.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Error!");
}
if (dateFroText != null){ //method to compare the current date and the goal date
Calendar dateFromTxtCal = Calendar.getInstance();
dateFromTxtCal.setTime(dateFroText);
int yearDiff = dateFromTxtCal.get(Calendar.YEAR) - currentDeT.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int dayDiff = ((yearDiff*365) + dateFromTxtCal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR)) - currentDeT.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
dayDiff--;
int hourDiffer = dateFromTxtCal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)+23 - currentDeT.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minuDiff = dateFromTxtCal.get(Calendar.MINUTE)+60 - currentDeT.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
int secoDiff = dateFromTxtCal.get(Calendar.SECOND)+60 - currentDeT.get(Calendar.SECOND);
System.out.println(dayDiff + " days " + hourDiffer + " hours " + minuDiff +" minutes " + secoDiff + "seconds remaining");
}
}
}

Avoid legacy date-time classe
You are working too hard. And you are using troublesome old date-time classes now obsoleted and supplanted by the java.time classes.
Work in UTC
Also, if you only care about the next 24 hours, then no need for time zones. Just use UTC.
Instant
The Instant class represents a moment on the timeline in UTC with a resolution of nanoseconds (up to nine (9) digits of a decimal fraction).
Instant instantNow = Instant.now();
Duration
A span of time unattached to the timeline is represented by the Duration or Period classes.
Duration duration = Duration.ofHours( 24 );
You can perform date-time math, adding a Duration to an Instant. The java.time classes use immutable objects, so the result of such manipulations is a fresh object with values based on the original.
Instant instantLater = instantNow.plus( duration );
ISO 8601
To serialize date-time values such as those to text, use the standard ISO 8601 formats. The java.time classes use ISO 8601 by default when generating and parsing strings.
String output = instantNow.toString();
2017-04-03T03:18:48.183Z
Calculate remaining time
To get the remaining time, let java.time do the math.
Duration remaining = Duration.between( Instant.now() , instantLater );
To report that in standard ISO 8601 format, call toString. The format for durations is PnYnMnDTnHnMnS. The P marks the beginning (for Period), and the T separates any years-months-dates from hours-minutes-seconds.
String outputRemaining = remaining.toString();
PT23H34M22S
To generate a longer string, in Java 9 call the to…Part method for each unit (hours, minutes, seconds). Oddly those methods were omitted from the original java.time.Duration class in Java 8. You could look to the source code of Java 9 to write similar code.
Or more simply, manipulate the standard string. Delete the PT. Replace the H with hours and so on. Do S first to avoid the plural s in the other two words. Admittedly this is kind of a hack, but it works thanks to some good luck in the occurrence of letters is the English spelling of hours-minutes-seconds.
String output = remaining.toString()
.replace( "PT" , "" )
.replace( "S" , " seconds " )
.replace( "H" , " hours " )
.replace( "M" , " minutes " ) ;
23 hours 34 minutes 22 seconds
ZonedDateTime
If you want to display the target date-time in the user's desired/expected time zone, apply a ZoneId to get a ZonedDateTime object.
ZoneId z = ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" );
ZonedDateTime zdt = instant.atZone( z );
To generate a string in standard format, call toString. Actually the ZonedDateTime class extends the standard by appending the name of the time zone in square brackets.
To generate strings in other formats, search Stack Overflow for many examples of DateTimeFormatter class.
Converting to java.util.Date
The Timer class has not yet been updated to work with the java.time types. So convert back to a Date object via new methods added to the old classes, in this case from.
java.util.Date date = java.util.Date.from( instantLater );
Or use a count of milliseconds from the Duration object.
long milliseconds = duration.toMillis() ;
ScheduledExecutorService
FYI, the Timer and TimeTask classes have been supplanted by the Executors framework. Specifically for your purpose, the ScheduledExecutorService. Search Stack Overflow for many examples and discussions.
About java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.
The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.
Where to obtain the java.time classes?
Java SE 8 and SE 9 and later
Built-in.
Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
Java SE 6 and SE 7
Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
Android
The ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above) for Android specifically.
See How to use ThreeTenABP….
The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.

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How do I compare dates in between in Java?
Example:
date1 is 22-02-2010
date2 is 07-04-2010 today
date3 is 25-12-2010
date3 is always greater than date1 and date2 is always today. How do I verify if today's date is in between date1 and date 3?

Date has before and after methods and can be compared to each other as follows:
if(todayDate.after(historyDate) && todayDate.before(futureDate)) {
// In between
}
For an inclusive comparison:
if(!historyDate.after(todayDate) && !futureDate.before(todayDate)) {
/* historyDate <= todayDate <= futureDate */
}
You could also give Joda-Time a go, but note that:
Joda-Time is the de facto standard date and time library for Java prior to Java SE 8. Users are now asked to migrate to java.time (JSR-310).
Back-ports are available for Java 6 and 7 as well as Android.

Use compareTo:
date1.compareTo(date2);

Following are most common way of comparing dates (my preference is Approach 1):
Approach 1: Using Date.before(), Date.after() and Date.equals()
if (date1.after(date2)) {
System.out.println("Date1 is after Date2");
}
if (date1.before(date2)) {
System.out.println("Date1 is before Date2");
}
if (date1.equals(date2)) {
System.out.println("Date1 is equal Date2");
}
Approach 2: Date.compareTo()
if (date1.compareTo(date2) > 0) {
System.out.println("Date1 is after Date2");
} else if (date1.compareTo(date2) < 0) {
System.out.println("Date1 is before Date2");
} else {
System.out.println("Date1 is equal to Date2");
}
Approach 3: Calender.before(), Calender.after() and Calender.equals()
Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar cal2 = Calendar.getInstance();
cal1.setTime(date1);
cal2.setTime(date2);
if (cal1.after(cal2)) {
System.out.println("Date1 is after Date2");
}
if (cal1.before(cal2)) {
System.out.println("Date1 is before Date2");
}
if (cal1.equals(cal2)) {
System.out.println("Date1 is equal Date2");
}

tl;dr
LocalDate today = LocalDate.now( ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" ) ) ;
Boolean isBetween =
( ! today.isBefore( localDate1 ) ) // “not-before” is short for “is-equal-to or later-than”.
&&
today.isBefore( localDate3 ) ;
Or, better, if you add the ThreeTen-Extra library to your project.
LocalDateRange.of(
LocalDate.of( … ) ,
LocalDate.of( … )
).contains(
LocalDate.now()
)
Half-open approach, where beginning is inclusive while ending is exclusive.
Bad Choice of Format
By the way, that is a bad choice of format for a text representation of a date or date-time value. Whenever possible, stick with the standard ISO 8601 formats. ISO 8601 formats are unambiguous, understandable across human cultures, and are easy to parse by machine.
For a date-only value, the standard format is YYYY-MM-DD. Note how this format has the benefit of being chronological when sorted alphabetically.
LocalDate
The LocalDate class represents a date-only value without time-of-day and without time zone.
A time zone is crucial in determining a date. For any given moment, the date varies around the globe by zone. For example, a few minutes after midnight in Paris France is a new day while still “yesterday” in Montréal Québec.
ZoneId z = ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" );
LocalDate today = LocalDate.now( z );
DateTimeFormatter
As your input strings are non-standard format, we must define a formatting pattern to match.
DateTimeFormatter f = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "dd-MM-uuuu" );
Use that to parse the input strings.
LocalDate start = LocalDate.parse( "22-02-2010" , f );
LocalDate stop = LocalDate.parse( "25-12-2010" , f );
In date-time work, usually best to define a span of time by the Half-Open approach where the beginning is inclusive while the ending is exclusive. So we want to know if today is the same or later than the start and also before the stop. A briefer way of saying “is the same or later than the start” is “not before the start”.
Boolean intervalContainsToday = ( ! today.isBefore( start ) ) && today.isBefore( stop ) ;
See the Answer by gstackoverflow showing the list of comparison methods you can call.
About java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.
The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
You may exchange java.time objects directly with your database. Use a JDBC driver compliant with JDBC 4.2 or later. No need for strings, no need for java.sql.* classes. Hibernate 5 & JPA 2.2 support java.time.
Where to obtain the java.time classes?
Java SE 8, Java SE 9, Java SE 10, Java SE 11, and later - Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
Java 9 brought some minor features and fixes.
Java SE 6 and Java SE 7
Most of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
Android
Later versions of Android (26+) bundle implementations of the java.time classes.
For earlier Android (<26), a process known as API desugaring brings a subset of the java.time functionality not originally built into Android.
If the desugaring does not offer what you need, the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above) to Android. See How to use ThreeTenABP….
The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.
UPDATE: This “Joda-Time” section below is left intact as history. The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
Joda-Time
Other answers are correct with regard to the bundled java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar classes. But those classes are notoriously troublesome. So here's some example code using the Joda-Time 2.3 library.
If you truly want a date without any time portion and no time zone, then use the LocalDate class in Joda-Time. That class provides methods of comparison including compareTo (used with Java Comparators), isBefore, isAfter, and isEqual.
Inputs…
String string1 = "22-02-2010";
String string2 = "07-04-2010";
String string3 = "25-12-2010";
Define a formatter describing the input strings…
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "dd-MM-yyyy" );
Use formatter to parse the strings into LocalDate objects…
LocalDate localDate1 = formatter.parseLocalDate( string1 );
LocalDate localDate2 = formatter.parseLocalDate( string2 );
LocalDate localDate3 = formatter.parseLocalDate( string3 );
boolean is1After2 = localDate1.isAfter( localDate2 );
boolean is2Before3 = localDate2.isBefore( localDate3 );
Dump to console…
System.out.println( "Dates: " + localDate1 + " " + localDate2 + " " + localDate3 );
System.out.println( "is1After2 " + is1After2 );
System.out.println( "is2Before3 " + is2Before3 );
When run…
Dates: 2010-02-22 2010-04-07 2010-12-25
is1After2 false
is2Before3 true
So see if the second is between the other two (exclusively, meaning not equal to either endpoint)…
boolean is2Between1And3 = ( ( localDate2.isAfter( localDate1 ) ) && ( localDate2.isBefore( localDate3 ) ) );
Working With Spans Of Time
If you are working with spans of time, I suggest exploring in Joda-Time the classes: Duration, Interval, and Period. Methods such as overlap and contains make comparisons easy.
For text representations, look at the ISO 8601 standard’s:
durationFormat: PnYnMnDTnHnMnSExample: P3Y6M4DT12H30M5S(Means “three years, six months, four days, twelve hours, thirty minutes, and five seconds”)
intervalFormat: start/endExample: 2007-03-01T13:00:00Z/2008-05-11T15:30:00Z
Joda-Time classes can work with strings in both those formats, both as input (parsing) and output (generating strings).
Joda-Time performs comparisons using the Half-Open approach where the beginning of the span is inclusive while the ending is exclusive. This approach is a wise one for handling spans of time. Search StackOverflow for more info.

Compare the two dates:
Date today = new Date();
Date myDate = new Date(today.getYear(),today.getMonth()-1,today.getDay());
System.out.println("My Date is"+myDate);
System.out.println("Today Date is"+today);
if (today.compareTo(myDate)<0)
System.out.println("Today Date is Lesser than my Date");
else if (today.compareTo(myDate)>0)
System.out.println("Today Date is Greater than my date");
else
System.out.println("Both Dates are equal");

Update for Java 8 and later
isAfter()
isBefore()
isEqual()
compareTo()
These methods exists in LocalDate, LocalTime, and LocalDateTime classes.
Those classes are built into Java 8 and later. Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport and further adapted to Android in ThreeTenABP (see How to use…).

You can use Date.getTime() which:
Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT
represented by this Date object.
This means you can compare them just like numbers:
if (date1.getTime() <= date.getTime() && date.getTime() <= date2.getTime()) {
/*
* date is between date1 and date2 (both inclusive)
*/
}
/*
* when date1 = 2015-01-01 and date2 = 2015-01-10 then
* returns true for:
* 2015-01-01
* 2015-01-01 00:00:01
* 2015-01-02
* 2015-01-10
* returns false for:
* 2014-12-31 23:59:59
* 2015-01-10 00:00:01
*
* if one or both dates are exclusive then change <= to <
*/

Try this
public static boolean compareDates(String psDate1, String psDate2) throws ParseException{
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date1 = dateFormat.parse(psDate1);
Date date2 = dateFormat.parse(psDate2);
if(date2.after(date1)) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

Use getTime() to get the numeric value of the date, and then compare using the returned values.

This code determine today is in some duration.. based on KOREA locale
Calendar cstart = Calendar.getInstance(Locale.KOREA);
cstart.clear();
cstart.set(startyear, startmonth, startday);
Calendar cend = Calendar.getInstance(Locale.KOREA);
cend.clear();
cend.set(endyear, endmonth, endday);
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(Locale.KOREA);
if(c.after(cstart) && c.before(cend)) {
// today is in startyear/startmonth/startday ~ endyear/endmonth/endday
}

This method worked for me:
public static String daysBetween(String day1, String day2) {
String daysBetween = "";
SimpleDateFormat myFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
try {
Date date1 = myFormat.parse(day1);
Date date2 = myFormat.parse(day2);
long diff = date2.getTime() - date1.getTime();
daysBetween = ""+(TimeUnit.DAYS.convert(diff, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS));
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return daysBetween;
}

Date difference in different timezones in java

I am pragmatically building a nested JSON from a table. Json looks something like this:
{"date":"03-16-2018 06:57:02",
"details":
[
{
"motorstate":0,
"startTime":"03-16-2018 20:41:57",
},
{
"motorstate":0,
"startTime":"03-16-2018 06:57:02",
}
]
},
{"date":"03-15-2018 08:08:48",
"details":
[
{
"motorstate":0,
"startTime":"03-16-2018 03:53:30",
}
]
}
If you look into the above example, the second record:
{"date":"03-15-2018 08:08:48",
"details":
[
{
"motorstate":0,
"startTime":"03-16-2018 03:53:30",
}
]
}
The dates are mismatching. This is because the date shown here is in IST but actually stored in UTC in my Google Datastore. In UTC, its still 03-15-2018 and not 03-16-2018.
My question is how can we perform a date difference in different timezones other than UTC in Java? The Date.getTime() method always give the difference in UTC and not in local Timezone.

tl;dr
Date difference in different timezones in java
Period.between(
LocalDateTime.parse(
"03-15-2018 08:08:48" ,
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( “MM-dd-uuuu HH:mm:ss” )
)
.atZone( ZoneId.of( ”Asia/Kolkata" ) )
.toLocalDate()
,
LocalDate.now( ZoneId.of( ”Asia/Kolkata" ) )
)
Details
The modern approach uses the java.time classes rather than the troublesome old me old legacy date-time classes such as Date and Calendar.
Tip: Avoid custom formatting patterns when serializing date-time values to text. Use standard ISO 8601 formats only.
Tip: when exchanging date-time values as text, always include an indicator of the offset-from-UTC and the time zone name.
First, parse your input strings as LocalDateTime because they lack any indication of offset or zone.
Define a formatting pattern to match input.
DateTimeFormatter f = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( “MM-dd-uuuu HH:mm:ss” ) ;
Parse.
String input = "03-15-2018 08:08:48" ;
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse( input , f ) ;
You claim to know that these inputs were intended to represent a moment in India time. Apply a ZoneId to get a ZonedDateTime.
ZoneId z = ZoneId.of( ”Asia/Kolkata" ) ;
ZonedDateTime zdt = ldt.atZone( z ) ;
To get the date-only value, extract a LocalDate.
LocalDate ld = zdt.toLocalDate() ;
To represent the delta between dates as a number of years, months, and days unattached to the timeline, use Period.
Period p = Period.between( ldt , LocalDate.now( z ) ) ;
For a count of total days.
long days = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between( start , stop ) ;
About java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.
The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.
You may exchange java.time objects directly with your database. Use a JDBC driver compliant with JDBC 4.2 or later. No need for strings, no need for java.sql.* classes.
Where to obtain the java.time classes?
Java SE 8, Java SE 9, and later
Built-in.
Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
Java SE 6 and Java SE 7
Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
Android
Later versions of Android bundle implementations of the java.time classes.
For earlier Android (<26), the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above). See How to use ThreeTenABP….
The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.

public String getSummary(String deviceGuid)
{
Query<com.google.cloud.datastore.Entity> query
= Query.newEntityQueryBuilder()
.setKind("sensordata")
.setFilter(PropertyFilter.eq("deviceguid", deviceGuid))
.setOrderBy(OrderBy.desc("startTime"))
.build();
QueryResults<com.google.cloud.datastore.Entity> resultList =
datastore.run(query);
if(!resultList.hasNext())
{
log.warning("No record found..");
return "No record found";
}
com.google.cloud.datastore.Entity e =null;
com.google.cloud.datastore.Entity pe =null;
SensorDataOut sensorDataOut = new SensorDataOut();
SensorSummaryDataOut summary = new SensorSummaryDataOut();
TotalSummaryDataOut totalSummary = new TotalSummaryDataOut();
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("IST"));
Calendar calendar1 = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar1.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("IST"));
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("IST"));
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
//sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("IST"));
long stopTime;
long startTime;
long pStartTime;
long diffTime;
long diffDay;
Date pDateWithoutTime;
Date eDateWithoutTime;
while(resultList.hasNext())
{
e = resultList.next();
startTime = (e.contains("startTime"))?e.getTimestamp("startTime").toSqlTimestamp().getTime():0;
stopTime = (e.contains("stopTime"))?e.getTimestamp("stopTime").toSqlTimestamp().getTime():0;
//log.info("Start Date : " + e.getTimestamp("startTime").toString() + " - " + String.valueOf(startTime));
//log.info("Stop Date : " + e.getTimestamp("stopTime").toString() + " - " + String.valueOf(stopTime));
//log.info("Usage Volume :" + String.valueOf(e.getLong("usageVolume")));
sensorDataOut = new SensorDataOut();
calendar.setTimeInMillis(stopTime);
sensorDataOut.stopTime = sdf.format(calendar.getTime());
calendar.setTimeInMillis(startTime);
sensorDataOut.startTime = sdf.format(calendar.getTime());
sensorDataOut.motorstate = (e.contains("motorstate"))?(int)e.getLong("motorstate"):-1;
sensorDataOut.startVolume = (e.contains("startVolume"))?(int)e.getLong("startVolume"):-1;
sensorDataOut.stopVolume = (e.contains("stopVolume"))?(int)e.getLong("stopVolume"):-1;
sensorDataOut.usageTime = (e.contains("usageTime"))?e.getLong("usageTime"):-1;
sensorDataOut.usageVolume = (e.contains("usageVolume"))?(int)e.getLong("usageVolume"):-1;
if(pe!=null)
{
//Get the date difference in terms of days. If it is same day then add the volume consumed
pStartTime= pe.getTimestamp("startTime").toSqlTimestamp().getTime();
try{
calendar.setTimeInMillis(pStartTime);
pDateWithoutTime = sdf1.parse(sdf1.format(calendar.getTime()));
calendar1.setTimeInMillis(e.getTimestamp("startTime").toSqlTimestamp().getTime());
eDateWithoutTime = sdf1.parse(sdf1.format(calendar1.getTime()));
}
catch(Exception ex){
log.info("Exception while parsing date");
continue;
}
diffTime = Math.abs(pDateWithoutTime.getTime() - eDateWithoutTime.getTime());
diffDay = TimeUnit.DAYS.convert(diffTime, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
//log.info("pDateWithoutTime: " + pDateWithoutTime + ", eDateWithoutTime: " + eDateWithoutTime + ", consumedVolume: "
// + sensorDataOut.usageVolume;
if(diffDay!=0) //If not same day
{
totalSummary.totVolume = totalSummary.totVolume + summary.totVolume;
totalSummary.totDuration = totalSummary.totDuration + summary.totDuration;
totalSummary.details.add(summary);
summary = new SensorSummaryDataOut();
}
}
summary.date = sensorDataOut.startTime;
summary.totVolume = summary.totVolume + sensorDataOut.usageVolume;
summary.totDuration = summary.totDuration + sensorDataOut.usageTime;
summary.details.add(sensorDataOut);
pe = e;
}
if(summary.details.size()>0)
{
totalSummary.totVolume = totalSummary.totVolume + summary.totVolume;
totalSummary.totDuration = totalSummary.totDuration + summary.totDuration;
totalSummary.details.add(summary);
summary = new SensorSummaryDataOut();
}
totalSummary.avgVolume = totalSummary.totVolume/totalSummary.details.size();
totalSummary.deviceguid = deviceGuid;
String json = "";
Gson gson = new Gson();
json = gson.toJson(totalSummary);
return json;
} //End of Function

Below method will return you your UTC time to current Timezone and this worked for me
public static Date getLocalDateObjFromUTC(String date, String time) throws ParseException {
String dateAndTimeInUTC = date + " " + time;
SimpleDateFormat localDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.getDefault());
localDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
Date dateInLocalTimeZone = localDateFormat.parse(dateAndTimeInUTC);
return dateInLocalTimeZone;
}

Calculate endTime using startTime and testDuration

I have the test start time (say 9:05:30) and total duration (say 5000 seconds) that a test should run.How to calculate the end time from start time and end time?

If you're using something like Instant, ZonedDateTime or LocalDateTime from the Java 8 time API, you can use plusSeconds:
Instant startTime = ...
Instant endTime = startTime.plusSeconds(5000);
If you're using Date (oh, the horrors...), you can simply use getTime:
Date startTime = ...
Date endTime = new Date(startTime.getTime() + TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(5000));

In javascipt you can do
console.time('testSomeCall');
//code here
console.timeEnd('testSomeCall');
in other languages usually you get the time or timestamp before your test and then after and do end - init, like this in this for java
long timeInit = System.currentTimeMillis();
//some code here
long timeEnd = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("Ttotal time: " + (timeEnd - timeInit));

String myTime = "9:05:20";
// before calculation
Date tempStartTime = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss").parse(myTime);
int hours = tempStartTime.getHours();
int minutes = tempStartTime.getMinutes();
int seconds = tempStartTime.getSeconds();
int elapsedSeconds = 5000;
// add seconds
int totalSeconds = seconds + elapsedSeconds;
// after calculation
Date tempEndTime = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss").parse(hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + totalSeconds);
hours = tempEndTime.getHours();
minutes = tempEndTime.getMinutes();
seconds = tempEndTime.getSeconds();
System.out.println(hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds);
// Output is 10:28:40
How can 09:05:5020 be parsed as Date?
the value is successfully parsed as the 5020th seconds, simply rolling over to next minute after each 60 seconds to accommodate the Out-Of-Bounds value. If you want to prevent this, call setLenient(false); on a DateFormat object before parsing (leniency is true by default).

The Answer by Andy Turner is correct about using java.time rather than the old date-time classes. Here's more specific detail.
java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the old troublesome date-time classes such as java.util.Date, .Calendar, & java.text.SimpleDateFormat.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations.
Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport and further adapted to Android in ThreeTenABP.
Instant
If just programmatically getting 5,000 seconds later from now, use the Instant object as shown in Turner’s Answer. An Instant is a moment on the timeline in UTC with a resolution up to nanoseconds.
Instant later = Instant.now().plusSeconds( 5_000 );
LocalTime
The LocalTime class represents a time-of-day without a date and without a time zone. So this works only for generic 24-hour days, not realistic days with time zones that have anomalies such as Daylight Saving Time (DST).
LocalTime lt = LocalTime.parse( "09:05:30" );
LocalTime later = lt.plusSeconds( 5_000 );
If hitting midnight, the result will roll-over into the early hours of the day starting with hour 00, then 01, and so on.
ZonedDateTime
If you want a realistic value that respects DST and so on, use ZonedDateTime.
ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" );
LocalDate tomorrow = LocalDate.now( zoneId ).plusDays( 1 );
LocalTime lt = LocalTime.parse( "09:05:30" );
ZonedDateTime tomorrowAround9Am = ZonedDateTime.of( tomorrow , lt , zoneId 0;
ZonedDateTime later = tomorrowAround9Am.plusSeconds( 5_000 );

Convert UK time to South African time in Java

I have a football match date and time as UK time.
I am running this service in South Africa so it must display the fixture date and time as South African time. At the moment I am doing this:
int kickoffHour = fixture.getTime().getHours() + 2;
However - when it reaches end of March 2016 this will have to change again to "+ 1" instead of "+ 2". Now I can't keep changing this so I want something that will automatically pick up that its DST or BST and do the conversion.
I have tried something like this:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"));
Date date = sdf.parse(fixture.getDate() + " " + fixture.getTime());
But that gave me like 2am or something. My date in the database is: 2015-12-16 and the time in the database is 16:00:00 - after parsing I get Wed Dec 16 02:00:00 SAST 2015

Apparently you are referring to adjustments needed for Daylight Saving Time (DST). You should leave such work to a good date-time library rather than manage these details yourself.
Unfortunately, the old date-time classes bundled with early versions of Java are not good. While a valiant effort, they have proven to be troublesome and confusing, flawed in both design and implementation. Avoid java.util.Date/.Calendar and java.text.SimpleDateFormat.
java.time
The java.time framework built into Java 8 and later supplants the troublesome old java.util.Date/.Calendar classes. The new classes are inspired by the highly successful Joda-Time framework, intended as its successor, similar in concept but re-architected. Defined by JSR 310. Extended by the ThreeTen-Extra project. See the Tutorial.
By the way, best practice is to do all your business logic, data storage & exchange, and database work in UTC. Use zoned date-time values only when expected by the user or data sink. However, it appears you have been given a string in London time, so let's go with that.
String input = "2015-12-16 16:00:00"; // Local date-time in United Kingdom (London).
Use proper time zone names. Never use the 3-4 letter codes commonly seen as they are neither standardized nor unique.
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern ( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" );
Your string input lacks embedded info about its offset-from-UTC or time zone. So, we will assume the String represents local time in Europe/London. We communicate this assumption to the DateTimeFormatter, as it would otherwise interpret the incoming String as belonging to the JVM’s current default time zone. Note that java.time uses immutable objects, so rather than alter the formatter we generate a new instance based on values take from the old instance.
ZoneId zoneId_London = ZoneId.of ( "Europe/London" );
formatter = formatter.withZone ( zoneId_London ); // Specify the zone by which to interpret this date-time input string as it lacks any offset or time zone info.
ZonedDateTime zdt_UK = ZonedDateTime.parse ( input , formatter );
With a London date-time in hand, we can adjust into a South Africa time zone.
ZoneId zoneId_Johannesburg = ZoneId.of ( "Africa/Johannesburg" );
ZonedDateTime zdt_ZA = zdt_UK.withZoneSameInstant ( zoneId_Johannesburg );
Dump to console.
System.out.println ( "input: " + input + " in zone: " + zoneId_London + " = " + zdt_UK );
System.out.println ( "zdt_UK: " + zdt_UK + " adjusted to zone: " + zoneId_Johannesburg + " is: " + zdt_ZA );
input: 2015-12-16 16:00:00 in zone: Europe/London = 2015-12-16T16:00Z[Europe/London]
zdt_UK: 2015-12-16T16:00Z[Europe/London] adjusted to zone: Africa/Johannesburg is: 2015-12-16T18:00+02:00[Africa/Johannesburg]
Lastly, we do most of our work in UTC. For that, extract a Instant object which is a moment on the timeline in UTC.
Instant instant = zdt_ZA.toInstant();

if fixture.getDate() + " " + fixture.getTime() works fine, at the end you will get the String as "2015-12-16 16:00:00".
Then I simply format the returning date. Mine works fine..
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"));
Date date = sdf.parse("2015-12-16 16:00:00");
//Date date = sdf.parse("2016-03-31 23:50:50");
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Africa/Johannesburg"));
System.out.println(df.format(date));
}
Output of this code is 2015-12-16 18:00:00
When I use commented date object, result was 2016-04-01 00:50:50

You can simply get the time values from the fixture and use calendar to auto convert your time zone. I am keeping in mind that your system timezone matches the expected output timezone. Please check the below code snipet, w/o using fixture object and using hard coded value.
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTimeZone(java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"));
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR, 16);
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
cal.set(2015, 11, 24);
System.out.println(cal.getTimeZone());
System.out.println(cal.getTime()); //printing in IST (my local time)

You should have a Date object from your database.
If you want to print it, use your SimpleDateFormat setting its timezone to South Africa "Africa/Johannesburg" and it will work.
Date myDate;
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Africa/Johannesburg"));
System.out.println(sdf.format(myDate));

How to get the current date/time in Java [duplicate]

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How to get the current date and time
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What's the best way to get the current date/time in Java?

It depends on what form of date / time you want:
If you want the date / time as a single numeric value, then System.currentTimeMillis() gives you that, expressed as the number of milliseconds after the UNIX epoch (as a Java long). This value is a delta from a UTC time-point, and is independent of the local time-zone1.
If you want the date / time in a form that allows you to access the components (year, month, etc) numerically, you could use one of the following:
new Date() gives you a Date object initialized with the current date / time. The problem is that the Date API methods are mostly flawed ... and deprecated.
Calendar.getInstance() gives you a Calendar object initialized with the current date / time, using the default Locale and TimeZone. Other overloads allow you to use a specific Locale and/or TimeZone. Calendar works ... but the APIs are still cumbersome.
new org.joda.time.DateTime() gives you a Joda-time object initialized with the current date / time, using the default time zone and chronology. There are lots of other Joda alternatives ... too many to describe here. (But note that some people report that Joda time has performance issues.; e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6280829.)
in Java 8, calling java.time.LocalDateTime.now() and java.time.ZonedDateTime.now() will give you representations2 for the current date / time.
Prior to Java 8, most people who know about these things recommended Joda-time as having (by far) the best Java APIs for doing things involving time point and duration calculations.
With Java 8 and later, the standard java.time package is recommended. Joda time is now considered "obsolete", and the Joda maintainers are recommending that people migrate.3.
1 - System.currentTimeMillis() gives the "system" time. While it is normal practice for the system clock to be set to (nominal) UTC, there will be a difference (a delta) between the local UTC clock and true UTC. The size of the delta depends on how well (and how often) the system's clock is synced with UTC.
2 - Note that LocalDateTime doesn't include a time zone. As the javadoc says: "It cannot represent an instant on the time-line without additional information such as an offset or time-zone."
3 - Note: your Java 8 code won't break if you don't migrate, but the Joda codebase may eventually stop getting bug fixes and other patches. As of 2020-02, an official "end of life" for Joda has not been announced, and the Joda APIs have not been marked as Deprecated.

(Attention: only for use with Java versions <8. For Java 8+ check other replies.)
If you just need to output a time stamp in format YYYY.MM.DD-HH.MM.SS (very frequent case) then here's the way to do it:
String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());

If you want the current date as String, try this:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
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()));
http://www.mkyong.com/java/java-how-to-get-current-date-time-date-and-calender/

tl;dr
Instant.now() // Capture the current moment in UTC, with a resolution of nanoseconds. Returns a `Instant` object.
… or …
ZonedDateTime.now( // Capture the current moment as seen in…
ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" ) // … the wall-clock time used by the people of a particular region (a time zone).
) // Returns a `ZonedDateTime` object.
java.time
A few of the Answers mention that java.time classes are the modern replacement for the troublesome old legacy date-time classes bundled with the earliest versions of Java. Below is a bit more information.
Time zone
The other Answers fail to explain how a time zone is crucial in determining the current date and time. For any given moment, the date and the time vary around the globe by zone. For example, a few minutes after midnight is a new day in Paris France while still being “yesterday” in Montréal Québec.
Instant
Much of your business logic and data storage/exchange should be done in UTC, as a best practice.
To get the current moment in UTC with a resolution in nanoseconds, use Instant class. Conventional computer hardware clocks are limited in their accuracy, so the current moment may be captured in milliseconds or microseconds rather than nanoseconds.
Instant instant = Instant.now();
ZonedDateTime
You can adjust that Instant into other time zones. Apply a ZoneId object to get a ZonedDateTime.
ZoneId z = ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" );
ZonedDateTime zdt = instant.atZone( z );
We can skip the Instant and get the current ZonedDateTime directly.
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.now( z );
Always pass that optional time zone argument. If omitted, your JVM’s current default time zone is applied. The default can change at any moment, even during runtime. Do not subject your app to an externality out of your control. Always specify the desired/expected time zone.
ZonedDateTime do_Not_Do_This = ZonedDateTime.now(); // BAD - Never rely implicitly on the current default time zone.
You can later extract an Instant from the ZonedDateTime.
Instant instant = zdt.toInstant();
Always use an Instant or ZonedDateTime rather than a LocalDateTime when you want an actual moment on the timeline. The Local… types purposely have no concept of time zone so they represent only a rough idea of a possible moment. To get an actual moment you must assign a time zone to transform the Local… types into a ZonedDateTime and thereby make it meaningful.
LocalDate
The LocalDate class represents a date-only value without time-of-day and without time zone.
ZoneId z = ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" );
LocalDate today = LocalDate.now( z ); // Always pass a time zone.
Strings
To generate a String representing the date-time value, simply call toString on the java.time classes for the standard ISO 8601 formats.
String output = myLocalDate.toString(); // 2016-09-23
… or …
String output = zdt.toString(); // 2016-09-23T12:34:56.789+03:00[America/Montreal]
The ZonedDateTime class extends the standard format by wisely appending the name of the time zone in square brackets.
For other formats, search Stack Overflow for many Questions and Answers on the DateTimeFormatter class.
Avoid LocalDateTime
Contrary to the comment on the Question by RamanSB, you should not use LocalDateTime class for the current date-time.
The LocalDateTime purposely lacks any time zone or offset-from-UTC information. So, this is not appropriate when you are tracking a specific moment on the timeline. Certainly not appropriate for capturing the current moment.
A LocalDateTime has only a date and a time-of-day such as "noon on 23rd of January 2020", but we have no idea if that is noon in Tokyo Japan or noon in Toledo Ohio US, two different moments many hours apart.
The “Local” wording is counter-intuitive. It means any locality rather than any one specific locality. For example Christmas this year starts at midnight on the 25th of December: 2017-12-25T00:00:00, to be represented as a LocalDateTime. But this means midnight at various points around the globe at different times. Midnight happens first in Kiribati, later in New Zealand, hours more later in India, and so on, with several more hours passing before Christmas begins in France when the kids in Canada are still awaiting that day. Each one of these Christmas-start points would be represented as a separate ZonedDateTime.
From outside your system
If you cannot trust your system clock, see Java: Get current Date and Time from Server not System clock and my Answer.
java.time.Clock
To harness an alternate supplier of the current moment, write a subclass of the abstract java.time.Clock class.
You can pass your Clock implementation as an argument to the various java.time methods. For example, Instant.now( clock ).
Instant instant = Instant.now( yourClockGoesHere ) ;
For testing purposes, note the alternate implementations of Clock available statically from Clock itself: fixed, offset, tick, and more.
About java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.
The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
You may exchange java.time objects directly with your database. Use a JDBC driver compliant with JDBC 4.2 or later. No need for strings, no need for java.sql.* classes.
Where to obtain the java.time classes?
Java SE 8, Java SE 9, Java SE 10, Java SE 11, and later - Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
Java SE 6 and Java SE 7
Most of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
Android
Later versions of Android bundle implementations of the java.time classes.
For earlier Android (<26), the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above). See How to use ThreeTenABP….
The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.

In Java 8 it is:
LocalDateTime.now()
and in case you need time zone info:
ZonedDateTime.now()
and in case you want to print fancy formatted string:
System.out.println(ZonedDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME))

Just create a Date object...
import java.util.Date;
Date date = new Date();

// 2015/09/27 15:07:53
System.out.println( new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()) );
// 15:07:53
System.out.println( new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()) );
// 09/28/2015
System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()));
// 20150928_161823
System.out.println( new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()) );
// Mon Sep 28 16:24:28 CEST 2015
System.out.println( Calendar.getInstance().getTime() );
// Mon Sep 28 16:24:51 CEST 2015
System.out.println( new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()) );
// Mon Sep 28
System.out.println( new Date().toString().substring(0, 10) );
// 2015-09-28
System.out.println( new java.sql.Date(System.currentTimeMillis()) );
// 14:32:26
Date d = new Date();
System.out.println( (d.getTime() / 1000 / 60 / 60) % 24 + ":" + (d.getTime() / 1000 / 60) % 60 + ":" + (d.getTime() / 1000) % 60 );
// 2015-09-28 17:12:35.584
System.out.println( new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis()) );
// Java 8
// 2015-09-28T16:16:23.308+02:00[Europe/Belgrade]
System.out.println( ZonedDateTime.now() );
// Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:16:23 +0200
System.out.println( ZonedDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME) );
// 2015-09-28
System.out.println( LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("Europe/Paris")) ); // rest zones id in ZoneId class
// 16
System.out.println( LocalTime.now().getHour() );
// 2015-09-28T16:16:23.315
System.out.println( LocalDateTime.now() );

Use:
String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
System.out.println(timeStamp );
(It's working.)

There are many different methods:
System.currentTimeMillis()
Date
Calendar

Create object of date and simply print it down.
Date d = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
System.out.print(d);

java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date();
It's automatically populated with the time it's instantiated.

Similar to above solutions. But I always find myself looking for this chunk of code:
Date date=Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
System.out.println(date);

For java.util.Date, just create a new Date()
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = new Date();
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(date)); //2016/11/16 12:08:43
For java.util.Calendar, uses Calendar.getInstance()
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(cal)); //2016/11/16 12:08:43
For java.time.LocalDateTime, uses LocalDateTime.now()
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
LocalDateTime now = LocalDateTime.now();
System.out.println(dtf.format(now)); //2016/11/16 12:08:43
For java.time.LocalDate, uses LocalDate.now()
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy/MM/dd");
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now();
System.out.println(dtf.format(localDate)); //2016/11/16
Reference: https://www.mkyong.com/java/java-how-to-get-current-date-time-date-and-calender/

1st Understand the java.util.Date class
1.1 How to obtain current Date
import java.util.Date;
class Demostration{
public static void main(String[]args){
Date date = new Date(); // date object
System.out.println(date); // Try to print the date object
}
}
1.2 How to use getTime() method
import java.util.Date;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[]args){
Date date = new Date();
long timeInMilliSeconds = date.getTime();
System.out.println(timeInMilliSeconds);
}
}
This will return the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT for time comparison purposes.
1.3 How to format time using SimpleDateFormat class
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
class Demostration{
public static void main(String[]args){
Date date=new Date();
DateFormat dateFormat=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String formattedDate=dateFormat.format(date);
System.out.println(formattedDate);
}
}
Also try using different format patterns like "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss" and select desired pattern. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
2nd Understand the java.util.Calendar class
2.1 Using Calendar Class to obtain current time stamp
import java.util.Calendar;
class Demostration{
public static void main(String[]args){
Calendar calendar=Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println(calendar.getTime());
}
}
2.2 Try using setTime and other set methods for set calendar to different date.
Source: http://javau91.blogspot.com/

Have you looked at java.util.Date? It is exactly what you want.

Java 8 or above
LocalDateTime.now() and ZonedDateTime.now()

I find this to be the best way:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(cal.getTime())); // 2014/08/06 16:00:22

Have a look at the Date class. There's also the newer Calendar class which is the preferred method of doing many date / time operations (a lot of the methods on Date have been deprecated.)
If you just want the current date, then either create a new Date object or call Calendar.getInstance();.

As mentioned the basic Date() can do what you need in terms of getting the current time. In my recent experience working heavily with Java dates there are a lot of oddities with the built in classes (as well as deprecation of many of the Date class methods). One oddity that stood out to me was that months are 0 index based which from a technical standpoint makes sense, but in real terms can be very confusing.
If you are only concerned with the current date that should suffice - however if you intend to do a lot of manipulating/calculations with dates it could be very beneficial to use a third party library (so many exist because many Java developers have been unsatisfied with the built in functionality).
I second Stephen C's recommendation as I have found Joda-time to be very useful in simplifying my work with dates, it is also very well documented and you can find many useful examples throughout the web. I even ended up writing a static wrapper class (as DateUtils) which I use to consolidate and simplify all of my common date manipulation.

Use:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy:MM:dd::HH:mm:ss");
System.out.println(sdf.format(System.currentTimeMillis()));
The print statement will print the time when it is called and not when the SimpleDateFormat was created. So it can be called repeatedly without creating any new objects.

System.out.println( new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy:MM:dd - hh:mm:ss a").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()) );
//2018:02:10 - 05:04:20 PM
date/time with AM/PM

New Data-Time API is introduced with the dawn of Java 8. This is due
to following issues that were caused in the old data-time API.
Difficult to handle time zone : need to write lot of code to deal with
time zones.
Not Thread Safe : java.util.Date is not thread safe.
So have a look around with Java 8
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalTime;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.Month;
public class DataTimeChecker {
public static void main(String args[]) {
DataTimeChecker dateTimeChecker = new DataTimeChecker();
dateTimeChecker.DateTime();
}
public void DateTime() {
// Get the current date and time
LocalDateTime currentTime = LocalDateTime.now();
System.out.println("Current DateTime: " + currentTime);
LocalDate date1 = currentTime.toLocalDate();
System.out.println("Date : " + date1);
Month month = currentTime.getMonth();
int day = currentTime.getDayOfMonth();
int seconds = currentTime.getSecond();
System.out.println("Month : " + month);
System.out.println("Day : " + day);
System.out.println("Seconds : " + seconds);
LocalDateTime date2 = currentTime.withDayOfMonth(17).withYear(2018);
System.out.println("Date : " + date2);
//Prints 17 May 2018
LocalDate date3 = LocalDate.of(2018, Month.MAY, 17);
System.out.println("Date : " + date3);
//Prints 04 hour 45 minutes
LocalTime date4 = LocalTime.of(4, 45);
System.out.println("Date : " + date4);
// Convert to a String
LocalTime date5 = LocalTime.parse("20:15:30");
System.out.println("Date : " + date5);
}
}
Output of the coding above :
Current DateTime: 2018-05-17T04:40:34.603
Date : 2018-05-17
Month : MAY
Day : 17
Seconds : 34
Date : 2018-05-17T04:40:34.603
Date : 2018-05-17
Date : 04:45
Date : 20:15:30

I created this methods, it works for me...
public String GetDay() {
return String.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd")));
}
public String GetNameOfTheDay() {
return String.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now().getDayOfWeek());
}
public String GetMonth() {
return String.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM")));
}
public String GetNameOfTheMonth() {
return String.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now().getMonth());
}
public String GetYear() {
return String.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy")));
}
public boolean isLeapYear(long year) {
return Year.isLeap(year);
}
public String GetDate() {
return GetDay() + "/" + GetMonth() + "/" + GetYear();
}
public String Get12HHour() {
return String.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("hh")));
}
public String Get24HHour() {
return String.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now().getHour());
}
public String GetMinutes() {
return String.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("mm")));
}
public String GetSeconds() {
return String.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("ss")));
}
public String Get24HTime() {
return Get24HHour() + ":" + GetMinutes();
}
public String Get24HFullTime() {
return Get24HHour() + ":" + GetMinutes() + ":" + GetSeconds();
}
public String Get12HTime() {
return Get12HHour() + ":" + GetMinutes();
}
public String Get12HFullTime() {
return Get12HHour() + ":" + GetMinutes() + ":" + GetSeconds();
}

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class DateDemo {
public static void main(String args[]) {
Date dNow = new Date( );
SimpleDateFormat ft =
new SimpleDateFormat ("E yyyy.MM.dd 'at' hh:mm:ss a zzz");
System.out.println("Current Date: " + ft.format(dNow));
}
}
you can use date for fet current data. so using SimpleDateFormat get format

just try this code:
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
public class CurrentTimeDateCalendar {
public static void getCurrentTimeUsingDate() {
Date date = new Date();
String strDateFormat = "hh:mm:ss a";
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(strDateFormat);
String formattedDate= dateFormat.format(date);
System.out.println("Current time of the day using Date - 12 hour format: " + formattedDate);
}
public static void getCurrentTimeUsingCalendar() {
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
Date date=cal.getTime();
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
String formattedDate=dateFormat.format(date);
System.out.println("Current time of the day using Calendar - 24 hour format: "+ formattedDate);
}
}
which the sample output is:
Current time of the day using Date - 12 hour format: 11:13:01 PM
Current time of the day using Calendar - 24 hour format: 23:13:01
more information on:
Getting Current Date Time in Java

Current Date using java 8:
First, let's use java.time.LocalDate to get the current system date:
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now();
To get the date in any other timezone we can use LocalDate.now(ZoneId):
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("GMT+02:30"));
We can also use java.time.LocalDateTime to get an instance of LocalDate:
LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.now();
LocalDate localDate = localDateTime.toLocalDate();

You can use Date object and format by yourself. It is hard to format and need more codes, as a example,
Date dateInstance = new Date();
int year = dateInstance.getYear()+1900;//Returns:the year represented by this date, minus 1900.
int date = dateInstance.getDate();
int month = dateInstance.getMonth();
int day = dateInstance.getDay();
int hours = dateInstance.getHours();
int min = dateInstance.getMinutes();
int sec = dateInstance.getSeconds();
String dayOfWeek = "";
switch(day){
case 0:
dayOfWeek = "Sunday";
break;
case 1:
dayOfWeek = "Monday";
break;
case 2:
dayOfWeek = "Tuesday";
break;
case 3:
dayOfWeek = "Wednesday";
break;
case 4:
dayOfWeek = "Thursday";
break;
case 5:
dayOfWeek = "Friday";
break;
case 6:
dayOfWeek = "Saturday";
break;
}
System.out.println("Date: " + year +"-"+ month + "-" + date + " "+ dayOfWeek);
System.out.println("Time: " + hours +":"+ min + ":" + sec);
output:
Date: 2017-6-23 Sunday
Time: 14:6:20
As you can see this is the worst way you can do it and according to oracle documentation it is deprecated.
Oracle doc:
The class Date represents a specific instant in time, with millisecond
precision.
Prior to JDK 1.1, the class Date had two additional functions. It
allowed the interpretation of dates as year, month, day, hour, minute,
and second values. It also allowed the formatting and parsing of date
strings. Unfortunately, the API for these functions was not amenable
to internationalization. As of JDK 1.1, the Calendar class should be
used to convert between dates and time fields and the DateFormat class
should be used to format and parse date strings. The corresponding
methods in Date are deprecated.
So alternatively, you can use Calendar class,
Calendar.YEAR;
//and lot more
To get current time, you can use:
Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance();
Doc:
Like other locale-sensitive classes, Calendar provides a class method,
getInstance, for getting a generally useful object of this type.
Calendar's getInstance method returns a Calendar object whose calendar
fields have been initialized with the current date and time
Below code for to get only date
Date rightNow = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
System.out.println(rightNow);
Also, Calendar class have Subclasses. GregorianCalendar is a one of them and concrete subclass of Calendar and provides the standard calendar system used by most of the world.
Example using GregorianCalendar:
Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
int hours = cal.get(Calendar.HOUR);
int minute = cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
int second = cal.get(Calendar.SECOND);
int ap = cal.get(Calendar.AM_PM);
String amVSpm;
if(ap == 0){
amVSpm = "AM";
}else{
amVSpm = "PM";
}
String timer = hours + "-" + minute + "-" + second + " " +amVSpm;
System.out.println(timer);
You can use SimpleDateFormat, simple and quick way to format date:
String pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd";
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
String date = simpleDateFormat.format(new Date());
System.out.println(date);
Read this Jakob Jenkov tutorial: Java SimpleDateFormat.
As others mentioned, when we need to do manipulation from dates, we didn't had simple and best way or we couldn't satisfied built in classes, APIs.
As a example, When we need to get different between two dates, when we need to compare two dates(there is in-built method also for this) and many more. We had to use third party libraries. One of the good and popular one is Joda Time.
Also read:
How to get properly current date and time in Joda-Time?
JodaTime - how to get current time in UTC
Examples for JodaTime.
Download Joda
.
The happiest thing is now(in java 8), no one need to download and use libraries for any reasons. A simple example to get current date & time in Java 8,
LocalTime localTime = LocalTime.now();
System.out.println(localTime);
//with time zone
LocalTime localTimeWtZone = LocalTime.now(ZoneId.of("GMT+02:30"));
System.out.println(localTimeWtZone);
One of the good blog post to read about Java 8 date.
And keep remeber to find out more about Java date and time because there is lot more ways and/or useful ways that you can get/use.
Oracle tutorials for date & time.
Oracle tutorials for formatter.
Lesson: Standard Calendar.
EDIT:
According to #BasilBourque comment, the troublesome old date-time classes such as java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar, and java.text.SimpleTextFormat are now legacy, supplanted by the java.time classes.

I'll go ahead and throw this answer in because it is all I needed when I had the same question:
Date currentDate = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
currentDate is now your current date in a Java Date object.

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