LocalDateTime now() Method in Java with Examples

Last Updated : 21 Jan, 2019

In LocalDateTime class, there are three types of now() method depending upon the parameters passed to it.

now()

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

public static LocalDateTime now()

Parameters: This method accepts no parameter. Return value: This method returns the current date-time using the system clock. Below programs illustrate the now() method: Program 1:

Java

// Java program to demonstrate
// LocalDateTime.now() method

import java.time.*;

public class GFG {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {

        // create an LocalDateTime object
        LocalDateTime lt
            = LocalDateTime.now();

        // print result
        System.out.println("LocalDateTime : "
                           + lt);
    }
}

Output:

LocalDateTime : 2019-01-21T05:47:08.644

now(Clock clock)

now(Clock clock) method of a LocalDateTime class used to return the current date-time based on the specified clock passed as parameter Syntax:

public static LocalDateTime now(Clock clock)

Parameters: This method accepts clock as parameter which is the clock to use. Return value: This method returns the current date-time. Below programs illustrate the now() method: Program 1:

Java

// Java program to demonstrate
// LocalDateTime.now() method

import java.time.*;

public class GFG {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {

        // create a clock
        Clock cl = Clock.systemUTC();

        // create an LocalDateTime object using now(Clock)
        LocalDateTime lt
            = LocalDateTime.now(cl);

        // print result
        System.out.println("LocalDateTime : "
                           + lt);
    }
}

Output:

LocalDateTime : 2019-01-21T05:47:20.949

now(ZoneId zone)

now(ZoneId zone) method of a LocalDateTime class used to return the current date-time from system clock in the specified time-zone passed as parameter.Specifying the time-zone avoids dependence on the default time-zone. Syntax:

public static LocalDateTime now(ZoneId zone)

Parameters: This method accepts zone as parameter which is the zone to use. Return value: This method returns the current date-time. Below programs illustrate the now() method: Program 1:

Java

// Java program to demonstrate
// LocalDateTime.now() method

import java.time.*;

public class GFG {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {

        // create a clock
        ZoneId zid = ZoneId.of("Europe/Paris");

        // create an LocalDateTime object using now(zoneId)
        LocalDateTime lt
            = LocalDateTime.now(zid);

        // print result
        System.out.println("LocalDateTime : "
                           + lt);
    }
}