Get Date..!

In many cases we want to use different dates (today's date / future date/ past date) with different formats.

Example:

1. Task due date you want to fill 5 days from current date with dd-MM-yyyy format.
2. You want to add today's date automatically to some field with MMM/dd/yy format.

  I'm just writing a java method which will take two arguments period (no of days) & format of date.

    For Getting today's date pass period as 0 , for getting future date pass period as positive and negative number for getting past date. 

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 Logic

public String getDate(int period,String format)
{
     Calendar currentDate = Calendar.getInstance();
     SimpleDateFormat formatter= new SimpleDateFormat(format);
     currentDate.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, period);
     String date = formatter.format(currentDate.getTime());
     return date;
}
//Parameters :
//period : no of days gap between the current and desired date
//format : Format of the date (Ex : dd/MM/yyyy . yyyy MMM dd)

Output :
Current date & Time is :

No of days	Format	Output
0	"MM/dd/yyyy"
5	"MM/dd/yyyy"
-3	"MM/dd/yyyy"

Happy coding :)

Regards,
SantoshSarma