Fast Date Format 

Apache Commons Lang 3.0 is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library commons-lang3-3.0.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows formatting date using FastDateFormat .

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_lang/tests/gen/FastDateFormatTest.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_lang.tests.gen; import java.util.Date; import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils; public class FastDateFormatTest {   /**    * @param args    */   public static void main(String[] args) {            System.out.println(DateFormatUtils.format(new Date(),          DateFormatUtils.SMTP_DATETIME_FORMAT.getPattern()));     System.out.println(DateFormatUtils.format(new Date(),          DateFormatUtils.ISO_DATE_FORMAT.getPattern()));     System.out.println(DateFormatUtils.format(new Date(),          DateFormatUtils.ISO_TIME_NO_T_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT.getPattern()));   } }

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