How to remove time from date?

Question

The following code returns the time of the current date:

System.debug('Current date: ' + Date.today().toStartOfMonth());

Output:

2018-08-01 00:00:00

How to remove time from date?

Answer 1

only way I found is to keep the date format and remove the 00 from end

System.debug('Current date: ' + String.valueOf(Date.today()).removeEnd(' 00:00:00'));

Answer 2

Using the format method solve the issue.

System.debug('Current date: ' + Date.today().toStartOfMonth().format());

Output:

1-8-2018

Answer 3

Date.format() method returns the Date as a string using the locale of the context user

or if you need it in a specific format regardless User locale use something like Datetime.format('yyyy-MM-dd') or Datetime.format('yyyy-MM-dd', 'America/New_York')

e.g.

Date d = Date.today().toStartOfMonth();
System.debug( Datetime.newInstance(d.year(), d.month(), d.day()).format('yyy-MM-dd') );

Answer 4

A more elegant way I found was:

System.debug('Current date: ' + String.valueOf(Date.today().toStartOfMonth()).split(' ')[0]);