How to get Month Name from Calendar

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Is there a oneliner to get the name of the month when we know int monthNumber    calendar get Calendar MONTH  Or what is the easiest way

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Joda-Time  How about using Joda-Time  It s a far better date-time API to work with  And January means january here  It s not like Calendar  which uses 0-based index for months     You can use AbstractDateTime toString  pattern   method to format the date in specified format   DateTime date   DateTime now    String month   date toString  MMM      Month Name From Number  If you want month name for a particular month number  you can do it like this    int month   3  String monthName   DateTime now   withMonthOfYear month  toString  MMM      Localize  The above approach uses your JVM   s current default Locale for the language of the month name  You want to specify a Locale object instead   String month   date toString   MMM   Locale CANADA FRENCH

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Calender cal   Calendar getInstance Locale ENGLISH  String   mons   new DateFormatSymbols Locale ENGLISH  getShortMonths    int m   cal get Calendar MONTH   String mName   mons m

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SimpleDateFormat dateFormat   new SimpleDateFormat   LLLL   Locale getDefault      dateFormat format  date      For some languages  e g  Russian  this is the only correct way to get the stand-alone month names   This is what you get  if you use getDisplayName from the Calendar or DateFormatSymbols for January           which is correct for a complete date string   10         2014    but in case of a stand-alone month name you would expect

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DateFormat date    new SimpleDateFormat  dd MMM yyyy    Date date1   new Date    System out println date format date1

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from the SimpleDateFormat java doc              lt td gt  lt code gt  yyyyy MMMMM dd GGG hh mm aaa  lt  code gt              lt td gt  lt code gt 02001 July 04 AD 12 08 PM lt  code gt              lt td gt  lt code gt  EEE  d MMM yyyy HH mm ss Z  lt  code gt              lt td gt  lt code gt Wed  4 Jul 2001 12 08 56 -0700 lt  code gt

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This works for me   String getMonthName int monthNumber        String   months   new DateFormatSymbols   getMonths        int n   monthNumber-1      return  n  gt   0  amp  amp  n  lt   11    months n     wrong number       To returns  September  with one line   String month   getMonthName 9

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It might be an old question  but as a one liner to get the name of the month when we know the indices  I used  String month   new DateFormatSymbols   getMonths   monthNumber - 1     or for short names  String month   new DateFormatSymbols   getShortMonths   monthNumber - 1     Please be aware that your monthNumber starts counting from 1 while any of the methods above returns an array so you need to start counting from 0

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I found this much easier https   docs oracle com javase tutorial datetime iso enum html   private void getCalendarMonth Date date              Calendar calendar   Calendar getInstance        calendar setTime date       Month month   Month of calendar get Calendar MONTH               Locale locale   Locale getDefault        System out println month getDisplayName TextStyle FULL  locale        System out println month getDisplayName TextStyle NARROW  locale        System out println month getDisplayName TextStyle SHORT  locale

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you can achieve it using SimpleDateFormat  which is meant to format date and times     Calendar cal   Calendar getInstance    System out println new SimpleDateFormat  MMM   format cal getTime

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You will get this way also     String getMonthForInt int num            String month    wrong           DateFormatSymbols dfs   new DateFormatSymbols            String   months   dfs getMonths            if  num  gt   0  amp  amp  num  lt   11                 month   months num                     return month

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if you have multi-language interface  you can use getDisplayName to display the name of month with control of displaying language   here is an example of displaying the month name in english  frensh  arabic and arabic in specific country like  Syria        Calendar c   Calendar getInstance        System out println c getDisplayName Calendar MONTH  Calendar LONG  Locale ENGLISH          System out println c getDisplayName Calendar MONTH  Calendar LONG  Locale FRANCE          System out println c getDisplayName Calendar MONTH  Calendar LONG  new Locale  ar            System out println c getDisplayName Calendar MONTH  Calendar LONG  new Locale  ar    SY            System out println c getTime   toString       the result is     January   janvier                          Sat Jan 17 19 31 30 EET 2015

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This worked for me          import java text SimpleDateFormat          import java util Calendar            Calendar cal   Calendar getInstance            String currentdate new SimpleDateFormat  dd-MMM   format cal getTime

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You can get it one line like this  String monthName   new DataFormatSymbols getMonths   cal get Calendar MONTH

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Month  getDisplayName  Since Java 8  use the Month enum  The getDisplayName method automatically localizes the name of the month    Pass    A TextStyle to determine how long or how abbreviated  A Locale to specify the human language used in translation  and the cultural norms used for abbreviation  punctuation  etc    Example     public static String getMonthStandaloneName Month month        return month getDisplayName          TextStyle FULL STANDALONE           Locale getDefault

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I created a kotlin extension based on responses in this topic and using the DateFormatSymbols answers you get a localized response   fun Date toCalendar    Calendar       val calendar   Calendar getInstance       calendar time   this     return calendar     fun Date getMonthName    String       val month   toCalendar   Calendar MONTH      val dfs   DateFormatSymbols       val months   dfs months     return months month

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It returns English name of the month  04 returns APRIL and so on   String englishMonth  int month           return Month of month

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This code has language support  I had used them in Android App   String   mons   new DateFormatSymbols   getShortMonths     Jan Feb Mar       String   months   new DateFormatSymbols   getMonths     January Februaty March

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This is the solution I came up with for a class project   public static String theMonth int month       String   monthNames     January    February    March    April    May    June    July    August    September    October    November    December        return monthNames month       The number you pass in comes from a Calendar MONTH call

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As simple as this  mCalendar   Calendar getInstance        String month   mCalendar getDisplayName Calendar MONTH  Calendar LONG  Locale getDefault

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One way   We have Month API in Java  java time Month   We can get by using Month of month    Here  the Month are indexed as numbers so either you can provide by Month JANUARY or provide an index in the above API such as 1  2  3  4    Second way   ZonedDateTime now   getMonth      This is available in java time ZonedDateTime

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