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Display Month of year using Java Calendar

  1. /*
  2.   Display Month of year using Java Calendar
  3.   This example shows how to display a month like January, February etc.  
  4.   using Java Calendar class.
  5. */
  6.  
  7. import java.util.Calendar;
  8.  
  9.  
  10. public class DisplayMonthOfYear {
  11.  
  12.   public static void main(String[] args) {
  13.    
  14.     //create Calendar instance
  15.     Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
  16.    
  17.     System.out.println("Current date : " + (now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1)
  18.                         + "-"
  19.                         + now.get(Calendar.DATE)
  20.                         + "-"
  21.                         + now.get(Calendar.YEAR));
  22.    
  23.     //create an array of months
  24.     String[] strMonths = new String[]{
  25.                       "Jan",
  26.                       "Feb",
  27.                       "Mar",
  28.                       "Apr",
  29.                       "May",
  30.                       "Jun",
  31.                       "Jul",
  32.                       "Aug",
  33.                       "Sep",
  34.                       "Oct",
  35.                       "Nov",
  36.                       "Dec"
  37.                     };
  38.    
  39.     System.out.println("Current month is : " +
  40.                 strMonths[now.get(Calendar.MONTH)]
  41.               );
  42.    
  43.  
  44.   }
  45.  
  46. }
  47.  
  48. /*
  49. Typical output would be
  50. Current date : 12-25-2007
  51. Current month is : Dec
  52. */

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