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Java Date toString() Method with Example

Date Class toString() method: Here, we are going to learn about the toString() method of Date Class with its syntax and example.
Submitted by Preeti Jain, on February 09, 2020

Date Class toString() method

• toString() method is available in java.util package.
• toString() method is for string denotation of this Date object or in other words we can say it denotes date in a string.
• toString() method is a non-static method, it is accessible with the class object only and if we try to access the method with the class name then we will get an error.
• toString() method does not throw an exception at the time of representing a date in a string.

Syntax:

    public String toString();

Parameter(s):

• It does not accept any parameter.

Return value:

The return type of this method is String, it returns this date in string form.

Example:

// Java program to demonstrate the example 
// of String toString() method of Date

import java.util.*;

public class ToStringOfDate {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // create a Date object with dates
        Date this_date = new Date(2016, 8, 20);

        // By using toString() method is to represent
        // this date as a string
        System.out.println("this_date.toString(): " + this_date.toString());
    }
}

Output

this_date.toString(): Wed Sep 20 00:00:00 GMT 3916