How to get current timestamp in java

Its quite easy to get the current timestamp in java. In this tutorial we will see how to get the timestamp using Date and Timestamp class.

Here are the steps that we have followed in the below example:
1) Created the object of Date class.
2) Got the current time in milliseconds by calling getTime() method of Date.
3) Created the object of Timtestamp class and passed the milliseconds that we got in step 2, to the constructor of this class during object creation. It constructs the timestamp using the provided milliseconds value.

import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.util.Date;

public class TimeStampDemo 
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
         //Date object
	 Date date= new Date();
         //getTime() returns current time in milliseconds
	 long time = date.getTime();
         //Passed the milliseconds to constructor of Timestamp class 
	 Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(time);
	 System.out.println("Current Time Stamp: "+ts);
    }
}

Output:

Current Time Stamp: 2014-01-08 18:31:19.37

References:

• Javadoc – Date
• Timestamp docs