I need today's date - and zero anything else (" 05/06/08 00:00:00 ")

I've tried 

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(); 
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR, 0);        
Date date1 = calendar.getTime();                             
System.out.println(date1);

Run: (This is seriously messed up)

If the hour on the computer is < 12:00 at noon : Sun Mar 08 00:44:39 IST 2009

If the hour on the computer is > 12:00 at noon : Sun Mar 08 12:46:53 IST 2009

So I gave this up.

All the Date's setters are deprecated (except the epoch time) - so I don't want to use them either

The only thing I could think of is 

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();     
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String sDate = dateFormat.format(calendar.getTime());
Date today = dateFormat.parse(sDate);

But this is such a lame code I can't bring myself to write it.

Any other option?

Thanks!

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