Handling dates, their formatting and other operations in java are little bit problematic. I never found any efficient tool to print time stamp or to operate dates like adding days or finding out last day of the month or whether current year is leap year etc.
date4j provides efficient solution to do all date related operations. This is a very good replacement of java.util.Date. Refer the below example for this;

import java.util.TimeZone;

import hirondelle.date4j.*;

public class date4jYamty {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		//DateTime dt = new DateTime("");
		String dt = DateTime.now(TimeZone.getDefault()).format("YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.ffffff");
		//DateTime dateAndTime = new DateTime("2010-01-19 23:59:59");
		//DateTime dateAndTime = new DateTime("2010-01-19 23:59:59.123456789");
		//DateTime dateOnly = new DateTime("2010-01-19");
		//DateTime timeOnly = new DateTime("23:59:59");
		//DateTime dateOnly = DateTime.forDateOnly(2010,01,19);
		//DateTime timeOnly = DateTime.forTimeOnly(23,59,59,0);		

		System.out.println(DateTime.now(TimeZone.getDefault())); //Y:2010 M:7 D:22 h:21 m:23 s:58 f:130000000
		System.out.println(dt); //2010-07-22-21.23.58.110000
		System.out.println(DateTime.today(TimeZone.getDefault())); //Y:2010 M:7 D:22 h:null m:null s:null f:null		

		//DateTime dt = new DateTime("2010-01-15 13:59:15");
		//boolean leap = dt.isLeapYear(); //false
		//dt.getNumDaysInMonth(); //31
		//dt.getStartOfMonth(); //2010-01-01, 00:00:00.000000000
		//dt.getEndOfDay(); //2010-01-15, 23:59:59.999999999
		//dt.format("YYYY-MM-DD"); //formats as '2010-01-15'
		//dt.plusDays(30); //30 days after Jan 15
		//dt.numDaysFrom(someDate); //returns an int
		//dueDate.lt(someDate); //less-than
		//dueDate.lteq(someDate); //less-than-or-equal-to

	}

}

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Amit Gupta

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