Displaying System Time In Java

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christopher_board@yahoo.co.uk - 31 Aug 2006 22:06 GMT

I would like a label in my java application to display the system time
and date. But i don't know how to do this. Is it as simple as saying
setText. i.e. lblTime.setText("" + ). I would like to know what goes
after the plus.

Thank you very much for your help.

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Paul Hamaker - 31 Aug 2006 22:10 GMT

For something crude, you could do :
lblTime.setText("" + new Date() );
but for nice formatting, have a look at this :
http://javalessons.com/cgi-bin/fun/java-tutorials-main.cgi?sub=gui&ses=ao789
Lesson g47. Date and time

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IchBin - 01 Sep 2006 02:24 GMT

> For something crude, you could do :
> lblTime.setText("" + new Date() );
> but for nice formatting, have a look at this :
> http://javalessons.com/cgi-bin/fun/java-tutorials-main.cgi?sub=gui&ses=ao789
> Lesson g47. Date and time

You want to use the Class SimpleDateFormat.

SimpleDateFormat myFormat =
new SimpleDateFormat("E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");

lblTime.setText(myFormat.format(new Date()));

You just need to look at the Date Time format you want to actually use.
You only have to create one SimpleDateFormat field and then just reuse
that as the second line of code does above. You can find that on the
Class SimpleDateFormat API page at:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

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christopher_board@yahoo.co.uk - 01 Sep 2006 22:06 GMT

Thanks very much for your help I have done it and it works fine. Thanks
very much once again.

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