How can I get the current date and time and how can I transfer it into the following String format?
06-04-2020 05:00 PM
After that I need to add few minutes to the date? Please help!
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1What have you tried so far? – cegredev Apr 06 '20 at 11:23
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1How have you tried to get it? What went wrong? Any error or empty output? Can you show us your code? – deHaar Apr 06 '20 at 11:23
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1have you done any search on this site? – jhamon Apr 06 '20 at 11:25
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And please add what's exactly meant by *get ... in ... format*... Do you have to parse or output a datetime? – deHaar Apr 06 '20 at 11:26
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dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm a – GolamMazid Sajib Apr 06 '20 at 11:27
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3You guys are so annoying with your downvotes. This is a valid and good question for java beginners! I would recommend looking up `SimpleDateFormat` for formatting the date into that string. Also, you can simply get the CURRENT date and time with a call like this: `Date d = new Date();`Hope it helps! – F_Schmidt Apr 06 '20 at 11:30
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Hi Guys, I have tried simpledateformat, calendar as well as local date. However, the point is I need to add few minutes to the date and I need in the desire format mentioned above. – Raghavendra Apr 06 '20 at 11:36
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@F_Schmidt Thanks for your kind concern! I have managed to get it now! – Raghavendra Apr 06 '20 at 12:16
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1@F_Schmidt I didn’t downvote, but this question certainly deserves downvotes for lack of shown search and research effort. I agree that a constructive criticism in a comment is better than a downvote (or one may provide both). – Ole V.V. Apr 06 '20 at 12:55
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Your answer should look something like this:
String dateTimePattern = "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm a";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(dateTimePattern );
LocalDateTime yourDay= LocalDateTime.of(2020, 4, 6, 17, 00);
System.out.println(formatter.format(ZonedDateTime.of(yourDay, ZoneId.of("UTC-5"))));
Please look this up for more info on the available formats.
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It was a simple assumption, the question is how to format, not in which timezone the OP is. – PaianganuOm Apr 06 '20 at 11:29
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1Yes, no problem... just wanted to know... This is not a bad answer, but adding information that wasn't explicitly desired is somehow exe-catching ;-) – deHaar Apr 06 '20 at 11:31
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1To add minutes, or any time units in general, try ```LocalDateTime example = LocalDateTime.now().plusMinutes(5);``` – PaianganuOm Apr 06 '20 at 11:45
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@PaianganuOm Thanks a ton! I managed to get the minutes with the above function now! :) – Raghavendra Apr 06 '20 at 12:15
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1Adding a time zone is a good idea for many purposes. Prefer for example `America/Chicago` over `UTC-5`, that is *region/city* format. – Ole V.V. Apr 06 '20 at 12:59
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Date yourDate = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy h:m a");
String formatedDate= sdf.format(yourDate);
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3Please don’t teach the young ones to use the long outdated and notoriously troublesome `SimpleDateFormat` class. At least not as the first option. And not without any reservation. Today we have so much better in [`java.time`, the modern Java date and time API,](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/datetime/) and its `DateTimeFormatter`. – Ole V.V. Apr 06 '20 at 12:53