Re: Writing date and time in a log file in java

From:
IchBin <weconsul@ptd.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:38:44 -0400
Message-ID:
<rTmdnXOJRpOovGbZUSdV9g@ptd.net>
christopher_board@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Hi. I am writing an HTML log file in Java. I was wondering if I could
do it as

import java.util.*;
...
out.write("" + new Date());
...

However this comes up with an error. I was wondering how this would be
done.

Any help would be appreciatated.

Thanks very much for your help


You could look at or use the code below. You can just pass the message
to the function. The three functions you can use are:

1 - Write messages to console only
     setLogToConsole(String inTarget)
2 - Write messages to log file only
     setLogToFile(String inTarget)
3 - Write messages to console and log file
     setLog(String inTarget)

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class JAppLog {
public String getLogDate() {
     Object formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyMMddkk:mm:ss:SSS(z)");
     return (((DateFormat) formatter).format(new Date()).toString() + ": ");
}
public String getLogFileName() {
     Object formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyMMdd");
     return (((DateFormat) formatter).format(new Date()).toString() +
".log");
}
public void setLog(String inTarget)
{
     System.out.println(getLogDate()+inTarget);
     setLogToFile(inTarget);
}
public void setLogToConsole(String inTarget) {
     System.out.println(getLogDate()+inTarget);
}
public void setLogToFile(String inTarget) {
     try {
         BufferedWriter out =
         new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(getLogFileName(),
         true));
         out.write(getLogDate()+inTarget+"\n");
         out.close();
     } catch (IOException e) {
         JAppError.errorMessage(e);
     }
}
}

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