Java Date Now getCurrentDateAsString(String timestampFormat)

Description

Get the current date timestamp as a string

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
timestampFormat	- timestamp format. e.g. yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS

Declaration

public static String getCurrentDateAsString(String timestampFormat) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from   w ww . ja v a2  s  . c o m*/
 * (c) 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 * 
 * This software is released under the Eclipse Public License. The details can be found in the file LICENSE. 
 * Any dependent libraries supplied by third parties are provided under their own open source licenses as 
 * described in their own LICENSE files, generally named .LICENSE.txt. The libraries supplied by Cisco as 
 * part of the Composite Information Server/Cisco Data Virtualization Server, particularly csadmin-XXXX.jar, 
 * csarchive-XXXX.jar, csbase-XXXX.jar, csclient-XXXX.jar, cscommon-XXXX.jar, csext-XXXX.jar, csjdbc-XXXX.jar, 
 * csserverutil-XXXX.jar, csserver-XXXX.jar, cswebapi-XXXX.jar, and customproc-XXXX.jar (where -XXXX is an 
 * optional version number) are provided as a convenience, but are covered under the licensing for the 
 * Composite Information Server/Cisco Data Virtualization Server. They cannot be used in any way except 
 * through a valid license for that product.
 * 
 * This software is released AS-IS!. Support for this software is not covered by standard maintenance agreements with Cisco. 
 * Any support for this software by Cisco would be covered by paid consulting agreements, and would be billable work.
 * 
 */

import java.text.Format;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Get the current date timestamp as a string
     * 
     * @param timestampFormat - timestamp format.  e.g. yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS
     * @return
     */
    public static String getCurrentDateAsString(String timestampFormat) {
        Format formatter;
        Date date = new Date();
        formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(timestampFormat);
        return formatter.format(date).toString();
    }
}

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2. getCurrentDateAsNiceString()
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4. getCurrentDateAsString()
5. getCurrentDateAsString(DateFormat df)
6. getCurrentDateByString(String datePattern)
7. getCurrentDateDBFormat()
8. getCurrentDateFormat()
9. getCurrentDateFormated()