How to get the current month name using java program?

**Juaquine** · 21-01-2010

Hello to all,
I am last year B.Sc.I.T. student. We got assignment from our sir. In that assignment there is one question How to get the current month name using java program? I tried various method but none of them worked out. Anyone know how to solve this program. Please help me.

**absolute55** · 21-01-2010

We have to use ava.util.Calendar class to get the current month name.
Let's see the code below:

Code:

import java.util.Calendar;
 
public class GetMonthNameExample
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String[] mName = {"January", "February",
            "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
            "August", "September", "October", "November",
            "December"};
 
        Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
        String m = mName[c.get(Calendar.MONTH)];
 
        System.out.println(" Current Month name: " + m);
    }
}

**Reegan** · 21-01-2010

Hey it is very easy process to get current month name using java program,. Just go through following code.

Code:

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateFormatExample1 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        Date n = new Date();
 System.out.println(" 1. " + n.toString());

   System.out.println(" 2. " + DateFormat.getInstance().format(n));

      
        System.out.println(" 3. " + DateFormat.getTimeInstance().format(n));
        System.out.println(" 4. " +
            DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().format(n));

       
        System.out.println(" 5. " +
            DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(n));
        System.out.println(" 6. " +
            DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM).format(n));
        System.out.println(" 7. " +
            DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG).format(n));

      
        System.out.println(" 8. " + DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(
            DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.SHORT).format(n));
        System.out.println(" 9. " + DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(
            DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.SHORT).format(n));
        System.out.println("10. " + DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(
            DateFormat.LONG, DateFormat.LONG).format(n));
    }
}

**opaper** · 21-01-2010

I have written following program to get current month name using java program. Just go through it.

Code:

 1: import javax.swing.*; 
 import java.awt.*; 
import java.util.*; 

 public class ClockPanel extends JPanel { 
     public ClockPanel() { 
         super(); 
         String currentTime = getTime(); 
         JLabel t = new JLabel("Time: "); 
         JLabel c = new JLabel(currentTime); 
         add(t); 
         add(c); 
    } 
 
     String getTime() { 
         String time; 
         
         Calendar n = Calendar.getInstance(); 
         int h = now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY); 
        int min = now.get(Calendar.MINUTE); 
        int mon = now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1; 
       int d = now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH); 
         int y = now.get(Calendar.YEAR); 
 
         String monthName = ""; 
         switch (mon) { 
             case (1): 
                 monthName = "January"; 
                 break; 
             case (2): 
                 monthName = "February"; 
                 break; 
             case (3): 
                monthName = "March"; 
                 break; 
             case (4): 
                 monthName = "April"; 
                 break; 
             case (5):  

                monthName = "May"; 
                 break; 
             case (6): 
               monthName = "June"; 
                break; 
             case (7): 
                 monthName = "July"; 
                 break; 
             case (8): 
                 monthName = "August"; 
                 break; 
             case (9): 
                 monthName = "September"; 
                 break; 
             case (10): 
                 monthName = "October"; 
                 break; 
             case (11): 
                 monthName = "November"; 
                break; 
             case (12): 
                 monthName = "December"; 
         } 
        time = monthName + " " + d + ", " + y + " " 
             + h + ":" + min; 
         return t; 
     } 
}

**MindSpace** · 21-01-2010

Code:

import java.util.*;

public class GetMonthNameExample {

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        String[] currentmonthName = {"January", "February",
            "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
            "August", "September", "October", "November",
            "December"
        };

        Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();
        String month1 = currentmonthName[cal1.get(Calendar.MONTH)];
        System.out.println("Month name: " + month1);
    }
}