Java Utililty Methods Date Now

Date currentTime = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
return formatter.format(currentTime);

return getCurrentStringDate(PATTERN_YYYYMMDD);

return getCurrentStrTime("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:SSS");

try {
    return new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(FMT_LONG_TIME).parse(getCurrentDate(FMT_LONG_TIME)).getTime()
            / 1000;
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return 0L;

return (new Date()).getTime();

java.util.Calendar cal = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
return new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").format(cal.getTime());

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmssSSS");
Date date = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
return sdf.format(date);

return df.format(new Date());

return dateFormatting.format(calendar.getTime());

if (_currentDate != null) {
    _currentDate.setTime(System.currentTimeMillis());
} else {
    _currentDate = new Date();
if (_dateFormat == null) {
    _dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM-dd-yyyy__hh-mm-ssa");
return _dateFormat.format(_currentDate);