Java Program to Get Today's Date

Java is the most powerful programming language, by which we can perform many tasks and Java is an industry preferable language. So it is filled with a huge amount of features. Here we are going to discuss one of the best features of Java, which is how to get today's or current date using Java.

Methods:

There are two ways to get today's date as listed below:

1. Using now() method of LocalDate class
2. Using java.sql.Date() function

Let us go through them one by one to get a fair understanding of them.

Method 1: Using now() method of LocalDate class

now() method of a LocalDate class used to obtain the current date from the system clock in the default time-zone. This method will return LocalDate based on the system clock with the default time-zone to obtain the current date.

Example 

2021-05-31

Method 2: Using java.sql.Date() function