Java 8 – Get Current Date and Time

In the past we learned how to get current date and time in Java using Date and Calendar classes. Here we will see how can we get current date & time in Java 8.

Java 8 introduces a new date and time API java.time.* which has several classes, but the ones that we can use to get the date and time are: java.time.LocalDate, java.time.LocalTime & java.time.LocalDateTime.

Example: Program to get current date and time in Java 8

class DateExample {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
	/* Obtains the current date from the system clock in the 
	 * default time-zone.
	 */
	System.out.println("Current Date: "+java.time.LocalDate.now()); 
		
	/* Obtains the current time from the system clock in the 
	 * default time-zone.
	 */
	System.out.println("Current Time: "+java.time.LocalTime.now());  
		
	//current date and time
	System.out.println("Current Date & Time: "+java.time.LocalDateTime.now());  
   }
}

Output:

Current Date: 2017-09-27
Current Time: 13:12:04.103
Current Date & Time: 2017-09-27T13:12:04.103