How to get the current date and time in Java?

You can get the current date and time in Java in various ways. Following are some of them −

The constructor of Date class

The no-arg constructor of the java.util.Date class returns the Date object representing the current date and time.

Example

import java.util.Date;
public class CreateDate {
   public static void main(String args[]) {      
      Date date = new Date();
      System.out.print(date);
   }
}

Output

Thu Nov 05 20:04:57 IST 2020

The now() method of LocalDateTime class

The now() method of the LocaldateTime class returns the Date object representing the current time.

Example

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
public class CreateDateTime {
   public static void main(String args[]) {  
      LocalDateTime date = LocalDateTime.now();
      System.out.println("Current Date and Time: "+date);
   }
}

Output

Current Date and Time: 2020-11-05T21:49:11.507

The getInstance() method of the calendar class

The getInstance() (without arguments) method of the this class returns the Calendar object representing the current date and time.

Example

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
public class CreateDateTime {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      Calendar obj = Calendar.getInstance();
      Date date = obj.getTime();
      System.out.println("Current Date and time: "+date);
   }
}

Output

Current Date and time: Thu Nov 05 21:46:19 IST 2020

The java.time.Clock class

You can also get the current date ant time value using the java.time.Clock class as shown below −

Example

import java.time.Clock;
public class CreateDateTime {
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      Clock obj = Clock.systemUTC();
      System.out.println("Current date time: "+obj.instant());
   }
}

Output

Current date time: 2020-11-05T16:33:06.155Z