Java Utililty Methods Time Now

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(_16DIGIT_DATE_TIME);
return sdf.format(new Date());

return getNow("yyyy-MM-dd");

final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getDefault());
final String DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss"; 
final java.text.SimpleDateFormat sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
return sdf.format(cal.getTime());

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
sdf.setTimeZone(getDefaultTimeZone());
return sdf.format(getCalendar().getTime());

return FORMATTER.format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());

Date now = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
try {
    return dateFormat.parse(dateFormat.format(now));
} catch (ParseException e) {
    return null;

return getISOFormat(new java.util.Date());

return formatDateTime(new Date());

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date today = new Date();
return format.format(today);

return new Date();