How to get current local date and time in Kotlin

Try this :

 val sdf = SimpleDateFormat("dd/M/yyyy hh:mm:ss")
 val currentDate = sdf.format(Date())
 System.out.println(" C DATE is  "+currentDate)

java.util.Calendar.getInstance() represents the current time using the current locale and timezone.

You could also choose to import and use Joda-Time or one of the forks for Android.

My utils method for get current date time using Calendar when our minSdkVersion < 26.

fun Date.toString(format: String, locale: Locale = Locale.getDefault()): String {
    val formatter = SimpleDateFormat(format, locale)
    return formatter.format(this)
}

fun getCurrentDateTime(): Date {
    return Calendar.getInstance().time
}

Using

import ...getCurrentDateTime
import ...toString
...
...
val date = getCurrentDateTime()
val dateInString = date.toString("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss")

Try this:

val date = Calendar.getInstance().time
val formatter = SimpleDateFormat.getDateTimeInstance() //or use getDateInstance()
val formatedDate = formatter.format(date)

You can use your own pattern as well, e.g.

val sdf = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd")
// 2020.02.02

To get local formatting use getDateInstance(), getDateTimeInstance(), or getTimeInstance(), or use new SimpleDateFormat(String template, Locale locale) with for example Locale.US for ASCII dates. The first three options require API level 29.