Here you can find the source of nowDate(String strFormat)
public static String nowDate(String strFormat)
//package com.java2s; /*//from w w w. java2 s . co m * Copyright (c) 2013, OpenCloudDB/MyCAT and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software;Designed and Developed mainly by many Chinese * opensource volunteers. you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the * terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as published by the * Free Software Foundation. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Any questions about this component can be directed to it's project Web address * https://code.google.com/p/opencloudb/. * */ import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.HashMap; public class Main { private static HashMap<String, Object> parsers = new HashMap<String, Object>(); public static String nowDate(String strFormat) { java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date(); return getDateParser(strFormat).format(date); } private static SimpleDateFormat getDateParser(String pattern) { Object parser = parsers.get(pattern); if (parser == null) { parser = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern); parsers.put(pattern, parser); } return (SimpleDateFormat) parser; } }