How to format Date and Time in Java

In Java we constantly need to format date and time. so for that we can use the class SimpleDateFormat. So i will show how to get a Date instance and format it.

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
Date date = calendar.getTime();

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String outputString = formatter.format(date)

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