How to get current date and time of the system in Java

In Java we have Date class available in java.util package which encapsulates the current date and time.

The Date class have two constructors mentioned below:

1 Date( )
This constructor initializes the object with the current date and time. This doesn’t require any argument.

2 Date(long millisec)
We need to provide an argument to this constructor that equals the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since midnight, January 1, 1970

Below is a program to get current date and time:
It is very easy to get current date and time in Java. We need to create Date object with toString() method to print current date and time as follows:

[java]

import java.util.Date;

public class CurrentSystemDate{
public static void main(String args[]) {
// Instantiate a Date object
Date date = new Date();

// display time and date using toString()
System.out.println(date.toString());
}
}

[/java]

OUTPUT:
on February 03 10:01:47 CDT 2016

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