Java string to date conversion

That’s the hard way, and those java.util.Date setter methods have been deprecated since Java 1.1 (1997). Moreover, the whole java.util.Date class was de-facto deprecated (discommended) since introduction of java.time API in Java 8 (2014). Simply format the date using DateTimeFormatter with a pattern matching the input string (the tutorial is available here). In your specific case of “January 2, 2010” as the input … Read more

How do I get the current time?

How do I get the current time? 50 Use: >>> import datetime >>> datetime.datetime.now() datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 6, 15, 8, 24, 78915) >>> print(datetime.datetime.now()) 2009-01-06 15:08:24.789150 And just the time: >>> datetime.datetime.now().time() datetime.time(15, 8, 24, 78915) >>> print(datetime.datetime.now().time()) 15:08:24.789150 See the documentation for more information. To save typing, you can import the datetime object from the … Read more