I just want the Date !

[Dave Jones]

Hello all,
Checking the API I've found 3 or 4 different classes dealing with 'Date'
in some, most methods are deprecated...
I just need to get the current date in a String format ( e.g 27.3.05 22:35 or something similar)
This is supposed to be simple but I'm just confused
Thanks all

[Jesper de Jong]

Very simple:

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
 
// Creates a Date with the current time
Date now = new Date();
 
// Use SimpleDateFormat to format a date in a specific format
SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
System.out.println(fmt.format(now));

[Dave Jones]

thanks a lot, that's exactly what I needed clean and simple!