How to get year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds of the current moment in Java?

You can use the getters of java.time.LocalDateTime for that.

LocalDateTime now = LocalDateTime.now();
int year = now.getYear();
int month = now.getMonthValue();
int day = now.getDayOfMonth();
int hour = now.getHour();
int minute = now.getMinute();
int second = now.getSecond();
int millis = now.get(ChronoField.MILLI_OF_SECOND); // Note: no direct getter available.

System.out.printf("%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d.%03d", year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millis);

Or, when you're not on Java 8 yet, make use of java.util.Calendar.

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
int year = now.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int month = now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1; // Note: zero based!
int day = now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int hour = now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minute = now.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
int second = now.get(Calendar.SECOND);
int millis = now.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND);

System.out.printf("%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d.%03d", year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millis);

Either way, this prints as of now:

2010-04-16 15:15:17.816

To convert an int to String, make use of String#valueOf().

If your intent is after all to arrange and display them in a human friendly string format, then better use either Java8's java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter (tutorial here),

LocalDateTime now = LocalDateTime.now();
String format1 = now.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE_TIME);
String format2 = now.atZone(ZoneId.of("GMT")).format(DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME);
String format3 = now.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMddHHmmss", Locale.ENGLISH));

System.out.println(format1);
System.out.println(format2);
System.out.println(format3);

or when you're not on Java 8 yet, use java.text.SimpleDateFormat:

Date now = new Date(); // java.util.Date, NOT java.sql.Date or java.sql.Timestamp!
String format1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS", Locale.ENGLISH).format(now);
String format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.ENGLISH).format(now);
String format3 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss", Locale.ENGLISH).format(now);

System.out.println(format1);
System.out.println(format2);
System.out.println(format3);

Either way, this yields:

2010-04-16T15:15:17.816
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:15:17 GMT
20100416151517

See also:


Switch to joda-time and you can do this in three lines

DateTime jodaTime = new DateTime();

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
System.out.println("jodaTime = " + formatter.print(jodaTime));

You also have direct access to the individual fields of the date without using a Calendar.

System.out.println("year = " + jodaTime.getYear());
System.out.println("month = " + jodaTime.getMonthOfYear());
System.out.println("day = " + jodaTime.getDayOfMonth());
System.out.println("hour = " + jodaTime.getHourOfDay());
System.out.println("minute = " + jodaTime.getMinuteOfHour());
System.out.println("second = " + jodaTime.getSecondOfMinute());
System.out.println("millis = " + jodaTime.getMillisOfSecond());

Output is as follows:

jodaTime = 2010-04-16 18:09:26.060

year = 2010
month = 4
day = 16
hour = 18
minute = 9
second = 26
millis = 60

According to http://www.joda.org/joda-time/

Joda-Time is the de facto standard date and time library for Java. From Java SE 8 onwards, users are asked to migrate to java.time (JSR-310).


    // Java 8
    System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().getYear());       // 2015
    System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().getMonth());      // SEPTEMBER
    System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().getDayOfMonth()); // 29
    System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().getHour());       // 7
    System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().getMinute());     // 36
    System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().getSecond());     // 51
    System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now().get(ChronoField.MILLI_OF_SECOND)); // 100

    // Calendar
    System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR));         // 2015
    System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.MONTH ) + 1);   // 9
    System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)); // 29
    System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));  // 7
    System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.MINUTE));       // 35
    System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.SECOND));       // 32
    System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.MILLISECOND));  // 481

    // Joda Time
    System.out.println(new DateTime().getYear());           // 2015
    System.out.println(new DateTime().getMonthOfYear());    // 9
    System.out.println(new DateTime().getDayOfMonth());     // 29
    System.out.println(new DateTime().getHourOfDay());      // 7
    System.out.println(new DateTime().getMinuteOfHour());   // 19
    System.out.println(new DateTime().getSecondOfMinute()); // 16
    System.out.println(new DateTime().getMillisOfSecond()); // 174

    // Formatted
    // 2015-09-28 17:50:25.756
    System.out.println(new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis()));

    // 2015-09-28T17:50:25.772
    System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS", Locale.ENGLISH).format(new Date()));

    // Java 8
    // 2015-09-28T17:50:25.810
    System.out.println(LocalDateTime.now());

    // joda time
    // 2015-09-28 17:50:25.839
    System.out.println(DateTimeFormat.forPattern("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS").print(new org.joda.time.DateTime()));

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