Java Program to Get Today’s Date

Java is the most powerful programming language, by which we can perform many tasks and Java is an industry preferable language. So it is filled with a huge amount of features. Here we are going to discuss one of the best features of Java, which is how to get today’s or current date using Java.

Methods:

There are two ways to get today’s date as listed below:

1. Using now() method of LocalDate class
2. Using java.sql.Date() function

Let us go through them one by one to get a fair understanding of them.

Method 1: Using now() method of LocalDate class

now() method of a LocalDate class used to obtain the current date from the system clock in the default time-zone. This method will return LocalDate based on the system clock with the default time-zone to obtain the current date.

Example 

Java

// Java Program to Get Today's Date
// Using now() method of LocalDate class

// Importing required classes
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

// Main class
// Day of Today
public class GFG {

    // Main Driver Method
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Printing Today's date by calling
        // java.time.LocalDate.now() function
        System.out.println(java.time.LocalDate.now());
    }
}

Output

2021-05-31

Method 2: Using java.sql.Date() function

Java

// Java Program to Get Today's Date
// Using java.sql.Date() function

// Importing required classes
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

// Main class
public class GFG {

    // Main Driver Method
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {

        // Printing Today's date by calling
        // java.sql.Date() function
        long millis = System.currentTimeMillis();
        java.sql.Date date = new java.sql.Date(millis);
        System.out.println(date);
    }
}

Output

2021-05-31