How to get year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds of the current moment in Java?

Question

How can I get the year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds of the current moment in Java? I would like to have them as Strings.

Answer 1

Or use java.sql.Timestamp. Calendar is kinda heavy,I would recommend against using it in production code. Joda is better.

import java.sql.Timestamp;

public class DateTest {

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis()));
    }
}