How to get only date without time from calendar?

Question

I use the following code to add one day to the calendar. However, I want to retrieve in a string only the date without the time. Is this somehow possible?

  Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.setTime(new Date());
        calendar.add(Calendar.DATE,1);
String dateandtime=calendar.getTime();

Update: Thanks for your suggestions. The similar posts suggested is too complex for a newbie like me in java. The answer provided in this question is simple. That is why I suggest this question should not be closed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5050170/how-do-i-get-a-date-without-time-in-java — Thunderbolt Engineer, Oct 19 '20 at 13:20
You can use calendar.get(DATE), calendar.get(MONTH) and calendar.get(YEAR) for day , month and year. — Jawad El Fou, Oct 19 '20 at 13:21
I recommend you don’t use `Calendar`. That class is poorly designed and long outdated. Instead use `LocalDate` from [java.time, the modern Java date and time API](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/datetime/). A `LocalDate` is a date without time of day, so exactly what you need. — Ole V.V., Oct 19 '20 at 16:38
How is that other case different? Just so we don’t repeat the same answers, which would be useless for you. — Ole V.V., Oct 19 '20 at 16:46
Update: Thanks for your suggestions. The similar posts suggested is too complex for a newbie like me in java. The answer provided in this question is simple. That is why i suggest this question should not be closed. — stefanosn, Oct 20 '20 at 01:31

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '20 at 13:35

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This might help

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
SimpleDateFormat format1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

String formatted = format1.format(cal.getTime());
System.out.println(formatted);
// Output "2020-10-19"

answered Oct 19 '20 at 13:35

Nooruddin Lakhani

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Please don’t teach the young ones to use the long outdated and notoriously troublesome `SimpleDateFormat` class. At least not as the first option. And not without any reservation. Today we have so much better in [`java.time`, the modern Java date and time API,](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/datetime/) and its `DateTimeFormatter`. – Ole V.V. Oct 19 '20 at 16:37

Ole V.V. · Answer 2 · 2020-10-19T16:49:47.423

java.time

For a simple, reliable and up-to-date solution I recommend that you use java.time, the modern Java date and time API, for your date work.

    LocalDate today = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("Europe/Athens"));
    LocalDate tomorrow = today.plusDays(1);
    System.out.println(tomorrow);

When I ran this snippet just now (19 October), the output was:

2020-10-20

A LocalDate is a date without time of day (and without time zone), so it seems to me that this gives you exactly what you need, no more, no less.

For a string you may use tomorrow.toString() or use a DateTimeFormatter. Search for how to do the latter, it’s described in many places.

Link: Oracle tutorial: Date Time explaining how to use java.time.

How to get only date without time from calendar?

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