Question

I’ve found myself working on some old JSP and want to do something simple like display today’s date in dd/mm/yyyy format

Doesn’t seem to be that simple,

So far I’ve imported java.util.*

And I’ve tried various things like

String df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy");

However, to no avail…

Answer 1

You can use this:

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();

and then use some of the Calendar fields as needed, e.g.:

int dayOfMonth = now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
String dayOfMonthStr = ((dayOfMonth < 10) ? "0" : "") + month;
int month = now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
String monthStr = ((month < 10) ? "0" : "") + month;
System.out.print(dayOfMonthStr+"/"+monthStr+"/"+now.get(Calendar.Year));

To follow your original idea, I think you should do something like:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy");
sdf.format(new Date());