display current time

[Evan Pierce]

is there a way to get the current time that the computer my app is running on says? i tried looking into Date but it wouldnt just simply give me the time.

[Cameron Wallace McKenzie]

System.currentTimeMillis()?

I have all my watches synchronized using it. Who needs days, months and years anyways?

[Evan Pierce]

is this giving me the current time in milliseconds? im trying to get something like 11:20pm. there are 3,600,000 milliseconds in an hour and right now my clock says 11:20 which would mean this code should be giving me 40,000,000 but it is giving me a number much bigger then that.

[Scott Johnson]

As stated in the Javadoc, System.currentTimeMillis() returns the elapsed time since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC.

[Ricky Martaputra]

Calendar.getInstance()

?

[Jesper de Jong]

You get a Date object that represents the current date and time simply by creating a Date object using the no-args constructor. You use a class like java.text.SimpleDateFormat to format it into a String anyway you like.

Lookup the class java.text.SimpleDateFormat in the API documentation.

Date now = new Date();
DateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("KK:mm a");
String time = fmt.format(now);
 
System.out.println(time);