Java DateFormat getNumberFormat() Example
DateFormat class getNumberFormat() method example. This example shows you how to use getNumberFormat() method.
Syntax is : public NumberFormat getNumberFormat()
This method gets the number formatter which this date/time formatter uses to format and parse a time.
Here is the code.
/**
* @(#) GetNumberFormatDateFormat.java
* A class representing use of method getNumberFormat() of DateFormat
class in java.text Package.
* @Version 12-May-2008
* @author Rose India Team
*/
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
class GetNumberFormatDateFormat {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Create new Date object that will be initialized to the current date.
Date date = new Date();
System.out.println("Date by Date class : " + date.toString());
// Create new DateFormat object that will returns default date/time.
DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat.getInstance();
String stringDate = dateFormat.format(date);
System.out.println("Date by DateFormat class : " + stringDate);
// getNumberFormat method call.
String str = dateFormat.getNumberFormat().
format(NumberFormat.FRACTION_FIELD);
System.out.println("Number format for this date format is : " + str);
}
} |
Output of the program.
Date by Date class : Fri Jun 13 18:22:34 GMT+05:30 2008
Date by DateFormat class : 6/13/08 6:22 PM
Number format for this date format is : 1 |
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