Java Today getToday()

Description

Returns the date representing today (by system time) without time

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Date getToday() 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Ralf Ebert/*  w ww.  j a  v a  2  s. c  om*/
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 * Ralf Ebert - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Returns the date representing today (by system time) without time
     * 
     * @return
     */
    public static Date getToday() {
        Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
        setZeroTime(c);
        return c.getTime();
    }

    /**
     * Sets hour, minute, second, millisecond set to 0 for the given Calendar
     * object
     * 
     * @param c
     *            Calendar object
     */
    private static void setZeroTime(Calendar c) {
        c.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
        c.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
        c.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        c.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
    }
}

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5. getTimeNumberToday()
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7. getToday()
8. getToday()
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