Format is an abstract class that is used for formatting local-sensitive
information like date, number and message. The Format class derived from
the package java.text.format. The Date class is used to a specific instant
time in millisecond time.
Understand with Example
In this Tutorial we want to describe you a code that helps you to describe
Get Time Now. For this we have a class name Get Time Now. Inside the main method
we declare a String variable s,Format formatter and instantiate date
class. The Simple Date Format display the time in a specific format as
passed in argument of variable formatter. The variable formatter call a
format method ( ) and pass the date object as argument ,that returns you the
current Time in a specified format and store in a string variable, The
System.out.println prints the current time from string variable 's'.
Date date = new Date( ) - This is used to instantiate
the date class and allocate the memory to a date object, such that it represent
the time allocated to it in the nearest millisecond.
GetTimeNow.java
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class GetTimeNow {
public static void main(String args[]) {
String s;
Format formatter;
Date date = new Date();
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");
s = formatter.format(date);
System.out.println("Time : "+s);
}
}
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