skitz0

Don't know if you've solved this one, but incase it can help someone else here is a basic solution.

I'm assuming you wanted the date formated MM/dd/yy.. new Date().toString() will give you the date in long format if you want to cut the code down even further i.e. October 20, 2004 10:49PM EST etc....

import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;



public class OptionPaneTest
{

public static void main(String[] args)
{

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat ( "MM/dd/yy" );
String dateToday = dateFormat.format( new Date() );

String name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "What is your name?" );
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, name + " " + dateToday);

}

}