How to remove milliseconds from Date Object format in Java

Question

Since the java.util.Date object stores Date as 2014-01-24 17:33:47.214, but I want the Date format as 2014-01-24 17:33:47. I w

Answer 1

Use Apache's DateUtils:

import org.apache.commons.lang.time.DateUtils;
...
DateUtils.truncate(new Date(), Calendar.SECOND)