Get date without time in Java

This post will discuss how to get a date without time in Java.

1. Using Joda Time Library

The Joda-Time date-time library provides the high-quality replacement of standard date and time classes prior to Java SE 8. To get the date without time, you can use the LocalDate class.

import org.joda.time.LocalDate;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

LocalDate date = LocalDate.now();

System.out.println(date);

}

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Output (will vary):

2021-12-24

The Joda Time library DateTimeZone class provides access to the time zone through factory method forID():

import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;

import org.joda.time.LocalDate;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

DateTimeZone zone = DateTimeZone.forID("Europe/London");

LocalDate date = LocalDate.now(zone);

System.out.println(date);

}

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2021-12-24

2. Using `LocalDate` class

Similar to the Joda-Time library, Java 8 java.time package included a LocalDate class to represent a date without a time-zone.

import java.time.LocalDate;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

LocalDate date = LocalDate.now();

System.out.println(date);

}

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Output (will vary):

2021-12-24

To obtain the current date in the specified time zone, you can specify a Zone ID to the LocalDate.now() method.

import java.time.LocalDate;

import java.time.ZoneId;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

LocalDate date = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("Europe/Paris"));

System.out.println(date);

}

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Output (will vary):

2021-12-24

3. Using Date object

The Date object is initialized with the current date and time when its no-arg constructor is called. To parse only date (without time) in the specified format, use the DateFormat class.

import java.text.DateFormat;

import java.text.ParseException;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");

String date = formatter.format(new Date());

System.out.println(date);

}

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Output (will vary):

12-24-2021

4. Using Apache Commons Lang

The DateUtils class from Apache Commons Lang library provides a lot of useful utilities for Date and time manipulation. You can call its truncate() method to truncate a Date, as shown below.

import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateUtils;

import java.util.Calendar;

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Date date = DateUtils.truncate(new Date(), Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

System.out.println(date);

}

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Output (will vary):

Sun Dec 24 00:00:00 PST 2021

That’s all about getting a date without time in Java.

Get date without time in Java

1. Using Joda Time Library

2. Using LocalDate class

3. Using Date object

4. Using Apache Commons Lang

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2. Using `LocalDate` class