Converting date and time to a string in Java

Submitted by obraztsov on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 17:22

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Date now = new Date();

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("M/dd/YY h:mm a");
String shortStyle = df.format(now);
//shortStyle is "10/16/15 3:25 PM"

df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String customStyle = df.format(now);
//customStyle is 2015-10-16