Date/ Time formatting in Swing

Hi, I'm new to NetBeans working on an employee time management app. I can generate the Date/ Time in a clickable event but it looks like toString is the only format I can get the data in. I need to visually keep track of seconds and do some math on them. Is there a way to format Date/Time to have it display on the form as seconds?



Thanks,

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