Numbers and Dates - Java 8 Recipes - page 118

Solution #2
If you only need to obtain the current date without going into calendar details, use the
java.util.Date class to generate a new Date object. Doing so will cause the new
Date object to be equal to the current system date. In the following code, you can see
how easy it is to create a new Date object and obtain the current date:
Date date = new Date();
System.out.println(date);
System.out.println(date.getTime());
The result will be a Date object that contains the current date and time taken from
the system that the code is run on, including the time zone information, as shown fol-
lowing listing. The time is the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00
GMT.
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Solution #3
If you need to be more precise regarding the calendar, use the
java.util.Calendar class. Although working with the Calendar class will
make your code longer, the results are much more precise. The following code demon-
strates just a handful of the capabilities of using this class to obtain the current date:
Calendar gCal = Calendar.getInstance();
// Month is based upon a zero index, January is equal to
0,
// so we need to add one to the month for it to be in
// a standard format
int month = gCal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;int day
= gCal.get(Calendar.DATE);
int yr = gCal.get(Calendar.YEAR);