Thread: Help getting current time to start

My issue is I can't get the current time to start counting by seconds for example 22:17:51 - 22:17:52 - 22:17:53. Any help will be greatly appreciated and here is my code so far. I can get the time to display just not start.

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.Timer;
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 
public class TimeCounter extends JFrame
{  //instance variables
   JLabel counterLabel;
   int count = 1;
   //inner class to listen to Timer
   DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss ");
   //get current date time with Date()
	Date date = new Date();
 
   class TimerListener implements ActionListener
   {   
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
      {
       counterLabel.setText(dateFormat.format(date));        
      }
   }
 
   //constructor for SecondCounter and JFrame
   public TimeCounter()
   {
      setSize(200, 100);
      counterLabel = new JLabel("Date: "+date);
      add(counterLabel);
      ActionListener listener = new TimerListener();
      // Milliseconds between timer ticks
      final int DELAY = 1000;       
      Timer t = new Timer(DELAY, listener);
      t.start();   //start the time   
   }
}

then the driver

 
import javax.swing.JFrame;
 
/** 	 	 	 	 	 	
   This program moves the rectangle.
*/
public class TimeCounterViewer
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      JFrame frame = new TimeCounter();
      frame.setTitle("Time Counter");
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }
}

Thanks for taking the time to look at my code and help.

How do I continually update the GUI exactly ?? That is exactly what I'm trying to do.

you should use repaint() method that change the value of counterLabel.

int delay = 1000; //milliseconds
ActionListener taskPerformer = new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
//...Perform a task...
}
};
new Timer(delay, taskPerformer).start();
... from api