Get the current month name in Java

In this tutorial we are going to learn the current month name in java. We are also representing month in short format or else in MMM Format.

Introduction

In this we are using the java.time package. Mainly we are using two types of classes Date class and Formatter class.

Using SimpleDateFormat and date class

1. Date class in java provides the date and time. While SimpleDateFormat class used to format date and time.
2. Month will be shown in the form of  MMM format.
3. In java Date class is will comes under util package of java.

Example:

import java.util.Date;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public class GFG {
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        // initialize Date class
        Date date = new Date();
         
        // initialize SimpleDateFormat class
        // it accepts the format of date
        // here it accepts the "MMM" format for month
        SimpleDateFormat month = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM");
         
        //"format" use to format the date in to string
        String currentMonth = month.format(date);
        
 
        System.out.println(currentMonth);
    }
}

Output:

May

Formatter class

1. Formatter class in java is used to print the month in short form like MMM format.
2. We are using the “%tb” specifier to print the month in short form.
3. We also use the “%tB” specifier to print it in full name.

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Formatter;
public class GFG {
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        // initialize Date class
        Date date = new Date();
 
        // initialize Formatter class
        Formatter fm = new Formatter();
 
        //"format" use to format the month name in to string
        // from the date object
        //"%tb" is use to print the Month in MMM form
        fm.format("%tB", date);
 
        System.out.println(fm);
    }
}

Output:

 

May

Formatter class with Calendar class

We are using Calander class and Formatter class to get the current month name.

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Formatter;
public class GFG {
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        // initialize Formatter class
        Formatter fm = new Formatter();
 
        // initialize Calendar class
        //"getInstance()" return a Calendar instance based
        //on the current time and date
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
 
        // formatting month into string form the date object
        fm.format("%tb", cal);
 
        System.out.println(fm);
    }
}

Output:

May