Hi I am javing a jsp file where I would like to get the current date and time to be inserted in fields of an SQL table. The date should go into the MySQL date field and hence should be of format yyyy-mm-dd. I tried to use java.sql.Date, but I couldn't get it to work. If I simply use
long date = 0; java.sql.Date sqlDate = new java.sql.Date(date); int year = sqlDate.getYear(); I get back "70". So obviously I have to get the year from the machine's time, which is a linux box with Redhat 7.3. So I tried this: long date = 0; java.sql.Date sqlDate = new java.sql.Date(date); String thetime = sqlDate(System.currentTimeinMillis()); out.println ("SQL time is " + thetime); But this didn't work either. How do you do this? In addition, I would like to get the time, but in decimal format i.e. rather than 11:15 I would like to get 11.25 Is there a way of doing this? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Hugo -- Dr Hugo Bouckaert Systems and Programming Engineer GeoInformatics Exploration Australia P/L 57 Havelock St West Perth, WA 6005 PO Box 1675, West Perth 6872 Ph: 61 08 9420 7400 Fax: 61 08 9226 1299 www.geoinformex.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your cooperation. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com