How to get current local date and time in Kotlin

Question

How to get current Date (day month and year) and time (hour, minutes and seconds) all in local time in Kotlin?

I tried through LocalDateTime.now() but it is

Answer 1

checkout these easy to use Kotlin extensions for date format

fun String.getStringDate(initialFormat: String, requiredFormat: String, locale: Locale = Locale.getDefault()): String {
    return this.toDate(initialFormat, locale).toString(requiredFormat, locale)
}

fun String.toDate(format: String, locale: Locale = Locale.getDefault()): Date = SimpleDateFormat(format, locale).parse(this)

fun Date.toString(format: String, locale: Locale = Locale.getDefault()): String {
    val formatter = SimpleDateFormat(format, locale)
    return formatter.format(this)
}