code: private String _get_date(S sequence) {
  		Date sysdate = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
  
  		// String default_date =
  		// sysdate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)+"-"+sysdate.get(Calendar.MONTH)+"-"+sysdate.get(Calendar.YEAR);
  		String default_date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy")
  				.format(sysdate);
  		return default_date;
  		/*
  		 * try : date = record.annotations["date"] except KeyError : return
  		 * default #Cope with a list of one string: if isinstance(date, list)
  		 * and len(date)==1 : date = date[0] #TODO - allow a Python date object
  		 * if not isinstance(date, str) or len(date) != 11 \ or date[2] != "-"
  		 * or date[6] != "-" \ or not date[:2].isdigit() or not
  		 * date[7:].isdigit() \ or int(date[:2]) > 31 \ or date[3:6] not in
  		 * ["JAN", "FEB", "MAR", "APR", "MAY", "JUN", "JUL", "AUG", "SEP",
  		 * "OCT", "NOV", "DEC"] : #TODO - Check is a valid date (e.g. not 31
  		 * Feb) return default return date
  		 */
  	}
docs: /*
  private String _write_multi_entries(String tag, ArrayList<String>
  text_list) { String output = _write_single_line(tag,text_list.remove(0));
  for(String s : text_list) { output += _write_single_line("", s); } return
  output; }