code: import java.util.Calendar;
  import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
  import java.text.DateFormatSymbols;
  import java.util.Date;
  import java.text.DateFormat;
  import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
  public class Dates
  {
   public static void main(final String[] args)
   {
    Calendar now = new GregorianCalendar(); //months are 0 indexed, dates are 1 indexed
    DateFormatSymbols symbols = new DateFormatSymbols(); //names for our months and weekdays
  
    //plain numbers way
    System.out.println(now.get(Calendar.YEAR)  + "-" + (now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1) + "-" + now.get(Calendar.DATE));
  
    //words way
    System.out.print(symbols.getWeekdays()[now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)] + ", ");
    System.out.print(symbols.getMonths()[now.get(Calendar.MONTH)] + " ");
    System.out.println(now.get(Calendar.DATE) + ", " + now.get(Calendar.YEAR));
  
    //using DateFormat
    Date date = new Date();
    DateFormat format1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    System.out.println(format1.format(date));
    DateFormat format2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE, MMMM dd, yyyy");
    System.out.println(format2.format(date));
   }
  }
  