Formatting the Current Date
It is easy to use the getDate routine, along with a tJava component, to retrieve and format the current date according to a specified format, for example:
System.out.println(TalendDate.getDate("CCYY-MM-DD"));
The current date is returned in the specified format (optional):
![The result is 2010-03-02 in the Run view.](/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2024-07/Content/Resources/images/routines14_g.png)