The printf() method is used to print a formatted string, it accepts a string representing a format string and an array of objects representing the elements that are to be in the resultant string, if the number of arguments are more than the number of characters in the format string ... Read More

The GregorianCalendar class supports standard calendars it supports Julian and Gregorian calendars you can create an object of GregorianCalendar using one of its constructors. Following are various examples demonstrating how to print date using this class −ExampleFollowing example creates GregorianCalander by passing year, month and date values as parameters to ... Read More

You can parse a string containing a data to date value using the following ways −The constructor SimpleDateFormat class accepts a String value representing the desired date format and creates this object. You can parse the date string using the parse() method of this class.The parse() method of the LocalDate class ... Read More

The format() method of the java.lang.String class accepts a format string and an array of arguments and the string in specified format.ExampleFollowing example formats a date using the format() method −Live Demoimport java.util.Calendar; import java.util.GregorianCalendar; public class Test {    public static void main(String args[]){           ... Read More

The java.text.SimpleDateFormat class is used to format and parse a string to date and date to string.Parsing a date stringOne of the constructors of this class accepts a String value representing the desired date format and creates SimpleDateFormat object. To parse/convert a string as a Date objectInstantiate this class by passing ... Read More

The java.text.SimpleDateFormat class is used to format and parse a string to date and date to string. To parse a date string −Instantiate this class by passing desired format string.Parse the date string using the parse() method.ExampleLive Demoimport java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class Sample {    public static void ... Read More

Using the LocalDate classThe java.time.LocalDate class represents the local date i.e. the date without time zone, you can use this object instead of Date. This class provides various methods such as isBefore(), isAfter() and, isEqual() to compare two dates −ExampleLive Demoimport java.time.LocalDate; public class Sample {    public static void main(String ... Read More

The java.text.SimpleDateFormat class is used to format and parse a string to date and date to string.One of the constructors of this class accepts a String value representing the desired date format and creates SimpleDateFormat object. To parse/convert a string as a Date object Instantiate this class by passing desired format string.Parse ... Read More

The LocalTime class represents the local time i.e. the time without time zone. This class provides various methods such as isBefore(), isAfter() and, isEqual() to compare two times.ExampleLive Demoimport java.time.LocalTime; public class Test {    public static void main(String args[]) {         LocalTime Time1 = LocalTime.of(10, 15, ... Read More

The java.time.LocalDateTime class represents the local date and time i.e. the date without time zone, you can use this object instead of Date. This class provides various methods such as isBefore(), isAfter() and, isEqual() to compare two dates −ExampleLive Demoimport java.time.LocalDateTime; public class Test {    public static void main(String args[]) ... Read More