Java : How to get Date rather than time?

Question

Is it possible that i can get todays date , rather than time ??

This is my code

public static void main(String args[]) throws ParseException{   
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    Date today = calendar.getTime();

}

Why is todays date is shown as before date ??

public class Ravi {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws ParseException {

        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        Date date = new Date();
        System.out.println("Todays Date"+dateFormat.format(date));


        List currentObject = new ArrayList();

        currentObject.add("2012-09-27");

        Date ExpDate = dateFormat.parse((String) currentObject.get(0));

        System.out.println("ddd"+ExpDate);

        if (ExpDate.before(date)) {
            System.out.println("true");
        }

        else {
            System.out.println("false");
        }

    }

}

What do you want todo with the Date object? Date is a thin wrapper around a millisecond value that allows JDBC to identify this as an SQL DATE value. A milliseconds value represents the number of milliseconds that have passed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00.000 GMT. — dngfng, Sep 27 '12 at 10:36
I need to compare it with todays date so that currentdate.before(todaysdate) is false. — Pawan, Sep 27 '12 at 10:38

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 27 '12 at 10:38

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System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(new Date()));

It will print 2012-09-27

answered Sep 27 '12 at 10:38

Subhrajyoti Majumder

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dngfng · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-27T11:00:24.730

Because Date is always the full current time e.g. 2012.09.27 12:45:23

Whilst your new Formated date is 2012.09.27 00:00:00 therefor the output is correct.

If you want to get false you will need to set hours, minutes and seconds to 0.

Using Calendar:

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

Using Date:

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

Comparing Dates with Calendar:

Calendar old = Calendar.getInstance();

old.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2011);

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();

old.before(now));

Note you may want to set Hours Minutes and Seconds to 0.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 27 '12 at 10:39

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Getting today date in yyyy-MM-dd format.

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String output = sdf.format(new Date());
System.out.println(output);

answered Sep 27 '12 at 10:39

swemon

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 27 '12 at 10:59

Why is todays date is shown as before date ??

when you do dateFormat.parse("2012-09-27"); date what you will get it will be 00h00min00sec 2012-09-27 so when you compare it with new Date(); you will get today date but couple hours(and minutes, and seconds) later, and that is why "2012-09-27" is before new Date()

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 27 '12 at 10:39

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You can do something like this:

Date date=new Date();
            SimpleDateFormat sd=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd HHmmss");
            String strDate=sd.format(date);
            String dateNow=strDate.substring(0,strDate.indexOf(" "));
            String timeNow=strDate.substring(strDate.indexOf(" ")+1);

Hope this helps.

answered Sep 27 '12 at 10:39

Atif Imran

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Use two distinct SimpleDateFormats instead. One for only date, one for only time. – helios Sep 27 '12 at 10:40
Correct, I thought probably this is what Preethi Jain was looking for. – Atif Imran Sep 27 '12 at 11:10

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 27 '12 at 10:46

public static void main(String args[]) throws ParseException{   
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    Date today = calendar.getTime();
sysout(dateFormat.format(today))
}

Java : How to get Date rather than time?

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