Question

I have a java program where I used java.util.Date to fetch current date and time and I have a table in mysql having a field as

ActivityTime date; // date is the type

And I used prepared statement to insert in the table.

java.util.Date today = new java.util.Date();
long t = today.getTime();

PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement(
                "insert into UserActivity values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)");
....
ps.setDate(5, new java.sql.Date(t));
....

Date is shown correct in output but time is 00:00:00 I don’t know why is this happening ?
Please help me to fetch time also.
When I printed java.util.date is shows correct time. Problem is how to insert time into sql table.

PS: May be this is very simple but java api is new to me

Answer 1

I would suggest using MySQL datetime field type and then use the function NOW() to insert a value to it.

You would insert the date like so:

INSERT INTO `table-name`(`DATETIME-FIELD-NAME`) VALUES(NOW());