Need to get current timestamp in Java

Question

I need to get the current timestamp in Java, with the format of MM/DD/YYYY h:mm:ss AM/PM,

For example: 06/01/2000 10:01:50 AM

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Answer 1

You can make use of java.util.Date with direct date string format:

String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd.HH.mm.ss").format(new Date());

Answer 2

I did it like this when I wanted a tmiestamp

    String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());

Hope it helps :) As a newbie I think it's self-explanatory

I think you also need import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; header for it to work :))

Answer 3

Try this single line solution :

import java.util.Date;
String timestamp = 
    new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy h:mm:ss a").format(new Date());

Answer 4

Joda-Time

Here is the same kind of code but using the third-party library Joda-Time 2.3.

In real life, I would specify a time zone, as relying on default zone is usually a bad practice. But omitted here for simplicity of example.

org.joda.time.DateTime now = new DateTime();
org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "MM/dd/yyyy h:mm:ss a" );
String nowAsString = formatter.print( now );

System.out.println( "nowAsString: " + nowAsString );

When run…

nowAsString: 11/28/2013 11:28:15 PM