what's wrong with this?

[johndoe444]

// this is overkill
Date now = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());

Why is this overkill?

[BestJewSinceJC]

Seems ok to me. Who said it was overkill?

(Although I think you should be using the Calendar class instead of Date..)

[johndoe444]

here:

http://www.odi.ch/prog/design/datetime.php

[jwenting]

// this is overkill
Date now = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());

Why is this overkill?

Because the default constructor for Date implicitly gets you a Date object reference referring to the system date/time at moment of creation.

Doing it like you do here is therefore redundant.

[student.09]

Sorry to post unrelated,but jwenting do you mind checking my java program really quick? (for an intro to java class). I have written it just wwant to confirm its right! (your private messaging is disabled so that's why I posted here. Sorry.

[johndoe444]

Student 09,

This is very bad to hijack someone else's post. Why don't you post it in a different thread? And why are you addressing directly to a particular member? Why not let the community help you?

[BestJewSinceJC]

Because the default constructor for Date implicitly gets you a Date object reference referring to the system date/time at moment of creation.

Doing it like you do here is therefore redundant.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/sql/Date.html

So that is no longer correct? Or why else isn't it listed there.

[JamesCherrill]

BJSJC: You're looking at sql.date. java.util.Date says
Date()
Allocates a Date object and initializes it so that it represents the time at which it was allocated, measured to the nearest millisecond.

[jwenting]

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/sql/Date.html

So that is no longer correct? Or why else isn't it listed there.

That has always been correct, for SQL dates :)