Java Today getToday()

Description

Get today's date as per local calendar.

License

Open Source License

Return

a date object that represents a UTC date that is equal to today in local calendar. for example, if local calendar says 20-Aug-2016, but UTC would say 21-Aug-2016, this function returns date that would print in UTC as '2016-08-20T00:00:00.000Z'

Declaration

public static Date getToday()

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Get today's date as per local calendar.
     *
     * @return a date object that represents a UTC date that is equal to today
     *         in local calendar. for example, if local calendar says
     *         20-Aug-2016, but UTC would say 21-Aug-2016, this function returns
     *         date that would print in UTC as '2016-08-20T00:00:00.000Z'
     */
    public static Date getToday() {
        Date date = new Date();
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setTime(date);
        cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
        cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
        cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
        /*
         * set date to this millis
         */
        return cal.getTime();
    }
}