Java Utililty Methods Date Now

return timeToString(System.currentTimeMillis(), format);

Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
SimpleDateFormat date_format = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
return date_format.format(cal.getTime());

SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat(formatter);
fmt.setTimeZone(getTimeZone());
return fmt.format(new java.util.Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));

return parseDate2String(new Date(), pattern);

if ("".equals(pattern) || null == pattern) {
    pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
return df.format(new Date());

SimpleDateFormat format = getDateFormat(pattern);
return format.format(new Date());

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
return dateFormat.format(new Date());

if (timeFormat == null) {
    timeFormat = "MM/dd/yyy hh:mm:ss";
return new SimpleDateFormat(timeFormat).format(new Date());

java.util.Date dt = new java.util.Date();
java.text.SimpleDateFormat sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String currentTime = sdf.format(dt);
return currentTime;

return java.text.DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().format(new java.util.Date());