Create file name using date and time

Question

I hope you could help me, I'm trying to call in the date from another class and looks like "2011-03-09 06-57-40", I want to use this to create the file below but everytime I do when the output runs it creates a new file as it re-runs calling the dat(). I know what's going wrong I'm just not sure how to fix it, I want to permently writw to the same file. I hope this makes sense? :/

Thank you for any help in advance :)

    date d = new date();     String  cdate = d.date();       String f = h;      try{         PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(cdate + ".tsv", true)));         out.print(f);         out.print("\t");         out.close();     }catch (IOException e){     } 

Answer 1

To create a file named the current date/time:

Date date = new Date() ; SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss") ; File file = new File(dateFormat.format(date) + ".tsv") ; BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file)); out.write("Writing to file"); out.close();