Why does "Date d = new Date();" return an error?

Question

This has probably been asked and answered a million times, but I can't seem to find a solution anywhere. Upon starting an activity in an android app, I want to display the current date and time. From what I understand the date part can be done simply with the following:

Date d = new Date();  
d.getTime();  
CharSequence s  = DateFormat.format("EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy", d.getTime());  

TextView date = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.dateText);  
date.setText(s);  

TextView time = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.timeText);  
time.setText(s);  

In eclipse it gives me an error and says that the constructor date is undefined. I chose the auto fix option and it added a 0 as a parameter in the Date constructor. This produced a date, but the date is Dec. 31, 1969. What am I missing here?

This is probably trivial, but I'm still new to this stuff.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Solution

You are probably using java.sql.Date. You want to be using java.util.Date.

Comments

[Thane Anthem]

This is indeed probably why the compiler is complaining about requiring a parameter to the date constructor.

[Brandon Englert]

Changing to java.util.Date worked. I need to re-format the date so I may post again if I can't get that figured out pretty quick. Thanks for your help

[musaul]

No worries. This page shows the date formats you can use ... developer.android.com/reference/android/text/format/… - Also, pressing the 'tick' next to my block would be nice. :)

[Alastair Pitts]

@Brandon Englert: If this was the correct answer, don't forget to mark this as the accepted answer (the tick) :)

[Shashanth]

Is there any much deference between yours answer and @musaul 's answer?

[Rav]

Nope and why will there be? After all that's the correct answer, and I've quite a few times faced this same situation which Brandon did and the solution I've given worked for me. So, I posted my reply.