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Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534603
Pages 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
First Programming Steps in Java Understanding Classes, Objects, and Their Usage in Java Handling Strings and Their Functions in Java Building Blocks for Java Programs – Loops and Conditions Everything You Need to Know About Interfaces and Inheritance Learn Everything about Arrays Understanding Date Class and Constructors in Java 11 Importance of the super and this Keywords and Exceptions in Java Understanding the Collections Framework The Importance of the final Keyword, Packages, and Modifiers Other Books You May Enjoy Index

The Date class


To understand the concept of the Date class, we will begin by creating source code for our dateDemo class. Let's say we want to print the current date or current time. How do we print that?

At times, we are asked to enter the date into the current date field and we need to get it from Java. In such cases, we will use the Date class, which will give us the current date and current time, in seconds as well. So every detail about the day, week, month, year, or hour can be read through from Java classes. Java has developed a class called Date, from which we can get all these details. The following screenshot displays the source code:

Source code displaying use of date class

Basically, we need to use the methods present in that particular class. To use the methods present in that class, we need to create an object of that particular class. For this, let's consider the following code syntax:

Date d= new Date();

This Date class comes from the util package, and d is the object of the Date...

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