Java Now nowAsAnsiDate()

Description

return current date in ANSI format (YYYYmmdd)

License

Open Source License

Return

string containing current ansi format date

Declaration

public static String nowAsAnsiDate() 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   w  w w.jav a  2 s  . c o  m*/
 * @(#)TimeUtils.java   0.51 1999/07/14
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2004, Pat Farrell, All rights reserved.
 * based on work Copyright (c) 2000, OneBigCD, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * Copyright (C) 2011 Patrick Farrell   All Rights reserved.
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License. * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 * 
 * It is abstract because all functions are static
 */

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    /** constant for UTC */
    public static final TimeZone utcTZ = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");

    /**
     * return current date in ANSI format (YYYYmmdd)
     * @return string containing current ansi format date
     */
    public static String nowAsAnsiDate() {
        return asAnsiDate(GregorianCalendar.getInstance(utcTZ));
    }

    /**
     * return argument date in ANSI format (YYYYmmdd)
     * @param aD input java.util.Date
     * @return string containing current ansi format date
     */
    public static String asAnsiDate(Date aD) {
        Calendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(utcTZ);
        cal.setTime(aD);
        return (aD != null) ? asAnsiDate(cal) : "";
    }

    /**
     * return argument date in ANSI format (YYYYmmdd)
     * @param when input Calendar
     * @return string containing current ansi format date
     */
    public static String asAnsiDate(Calendar when) {
        SimpleDateFormat utcDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd"); // hh:mm:ss");
        return utcDateFormat.format(when.getTime());
    }
}

Related

1. now(String formatStr)
2. now(String pattern)
3. now(String s, Date date)
4. now_TimeZone_BY()
5. nowAs14CharString()
6. nowAsString()
7. nowAsXSDDateTimeString()
8. nowDate()
9. nowDate(final String formatter)