Set the Date and Time with Gregorian Calendar in Java

To work with the GregorianCalendar class, import the following package.

import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

Create a Date object.

Date d = new Date();

Now, create an object and set the time using the setTime() method.

GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
cal.setTime(d);

The following is an example.

Example

 Live Demo

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
public class Demo {
   public static void main(String[] a) {
      Date d = new Date();
      GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
      cal.setTime(d);
      System.out.println(d);
   }
}

Output

Mon Nov 19 16:11:31 UTC 2018

Samual Sam

Published on 17-Dec-2018 12:08:02

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