Re: Newbie Date SimpleDateFormat HELL

From: Nobody (nobody_at_domain.invalid)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:39:51 GMT

myfirstname@gmx.net wrote...
> In message <MPG.1c85d32932cffdef98a0f7@news.verizon.net>,
> Nobody wrote on Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:51:54 GMT:
>
> > I'm trying to create an ANSI date string to use at the end of a file
> > name. "20050222" for today, for example.
> [...]
> > SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyyMMdd" ) ;
> > Date date = new Date() ;
>
> String formattedDate = sdf.format( date );
>
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/simpleDateFormat.html
>
> I don't know what you are trying to do with that Stringbuffer...

Oh, just fumbling through the doc for SimpleDateFormat...

format

public StringBuffer format(Date date,
                           StringBuffer toAppendTo,
                           FieldPosition pos)

    Formats the given Date into a date/time string and appends the result to the given StringBuffer.

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