HOw to get crrent date from computer
"Jan 15, 2003"

Hi nisao-ga,

It is actually fairly simple to obtain the date from within a java
program - all that is required is the java.util.Date and
java.text.DateFormat classes which can be imported as follows:

import java.util.Date;
import java.text.DateFormat;

There is also a tutorial available from Sun that show you how to
customize the output date/time information to suit various locales:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/dateFormat.html

This may be the most useful section for you from that tutorial:

"Formatting dates with the DateFormat class is a two-step process.
First, you create a formatter with the getDateInstance method. Second,
you invoke the format method, which returns a String containing the
formatted date. The following example formats today's date by calling
these two methods:

Date today;
String dateOut;
DateFormat dateFormatter;

dateFormatter = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.DEFAULT,
					   currentLocale);
today = new Date();
dateOut = dateFormatter.format(today);

System.out.println(dateOut + " " + currentLocale.toString());

The output generated by this code follows. Notice that the formats of
the dates vary with Locale. Since DateFormat is locale-sensitive, it
takes care of the formatting details for each Locale.

9 avr 98	 fr_FR
9.4.1998	 de_DE
09-Apr-98	 en_US

The preceding code example specified the DEFAULT formatting style. The
DEFAULT style is just one of the predefined formatting styles that the
DateFormat class provides, as follows:

DEFAULT 
SHORT 
MEDIUM 
LONG 
FULL"

For further information about these classes you may want to visit the
Java API pages:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/util/Date.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/text/DateFormat.html


Hope that answers your question :)

answerguru-ga

I have book and read sun's wedsite.
those is not working on my programming.
I need the real source code get crrent time from local machine.
That is only the helping web. 
I am a beginner of Java program.
I need the detail information instande of some help web.

It is simplest to just create a new instance of java.util.Date. It
will have the current time. E.g. (full example)

import java.util.Date;

public class DateTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Date now = new Date();
    System.out.println( now );
  }
}

For formatting, use java.text.SimpleDateFormat. E.g.

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;

public class DateTest {
  static SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy MM dd");

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println( format.format(new Date()) );
  }
}

I like this answer very much.
Thank you