LocalDate API has an improved way of working with date, many developers struggle to get a current date without time, java 8 made it simple with its factory method now(). Now
Obtains the current date from the system clock in the default time-zone.
LocalDate.now contains three overloaded methods
LocalDate.now();
Gets the current system date without time
LocalDate.now(Clock.systemDefaultZone());
Gets the current system date based on its system default zone id
LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of(“Europe/Paris”));
Converts the current system date to zone id and returns its date as LocalDate
Example:
import java.time.LocalDate;
public class LocalDateTest
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
LocalDate currentDate= LocalDate.now();
LocalDate currentDateBySystemTZ=LocalDate.now(Clock.systemDefaultZone());
LocalDate currentDateByTZ=LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("Europe/Paris"));
System.out.println("Current date : "+currentDate);
System.out.println("Current date by system time zone : "+ currentDateBySystemTZ);
System.out.println("Current date by Europe/Paris time zone : "+ currentDateByTZ);
}
}Output:
Current date : 2020-02-03
Current date by system time zone : 2020-02-03
Current date by Europe/Paris time zone : 2020-02-03
