Month name as a string

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I m trying to return the name of the month as a String  for instance  May    September    November    I tried   int month   c get Calendar MONTH     However  this returns integers  5  9  11  respectively   How can I get the month name

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Use getDisplayName   For earlier API s use String format Locale US   tB  c

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MMMM  is definitely NOT the right solution  even if it works for many languages   use  LLLL  pattern with SimpleDateFormat  The support for  L  as ICU-compatible extension for stand-alone month names was added to Android platform on Jun  2010   Even if in English there is no difference between the encoding by  MMMM  and  LLLL   your should think about other languages  too    E g  this is what you get  if you use Calendar getDisplayName or the  MMMM  pattern for January with the Russian Locale           which is correct for a complete date string   10         2014    but in case of a stand-alone month name you would expect           The right solution is    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat   new SimpleDateFormat   LLLL   Locale getDefault       dateFormat format  date      If you are interested in where all the translations come from - here is the reference to gregorian calendar translations  other calendars linked on top of the page

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The only one way on Android to get properly formatted stanalone month name for such languages as ukrainian  russian  czech  private String getMonthName Calendar calendar  boolean short        int flags   DateUtils FORMAT SHOW DATE   DateUtils FORMAT NO MONTH DAY   DateUtils FORMAT NO YEAR      if  short            flags    DateUtils FORMAT ABBREV MONTH            return DateUtils formatDateTime getContext    calendar getTimeInMillis    flags       Tested on API 15-25  Output for May is     but not

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For getting month in string variable use the code below  For example the month of September   M -  9  MM -  09  MMM -  Sep  MMMM -  September   String monthname  String android text format DateFormat format  MMMM   new Date

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I would recommend to use Calendar object and Locale since month names are different for different languages      index can be 0 - 11 private String getMonthName final int index  final Locale locale  final boolean shortName        String format     tB        if  shortName          format     tb        Calendar calendar   Calendar getInstance locale       calendar set Calendar MONTH  index       calendar set Calendar DAY OF MONTH  1        return String format locale  format  calendar       Example for full month name   System out println getMonthName 0  Locale US  false      Result  January  Example for short month name   System out println getMonthName 0  Locale US  true      Result  Jan

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A sample way to get the date and time in  this format  2018 Nov 01 16 18 22  use this  DateFormat dateFormat   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy MMM dd HH mm ss            Date date   new Date             dateFormat format date

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Russian   Month  MAY  getDisplayName      TextStyle FULL STANDALONE       new Locale   ru     RU                 English in the United States   Month  MAY  getDisplayName      TextStyle FULL STANDALONE       Locale US        May   See this code run live at IdeOne com   ThreeTenABP and java time  Here   s the modern answer  When this question was asked in 2011  Calendar and GregorianCalendar were commonly used for dates and times even though they were always poorly designed  That   s 8 years ago now  and those classes are long outdated  Assuming you are not yet on API level 26  my suggestion is to use the ThreeTenABP library  which contains an Android adapted backport of java time  the modern Java date and time API  java time is so much nicer to work with   Depending on your exact needs and situation there are two options    Use Month and its getDisplayName method  Use a DateTimeFormatter    Use Month      Locale desiredLanguage   Locale ENGLISH      Month m   Month MAY      String monthName   m getDisplayName TextStyle FULL  desiredLanguage       System out println monthName     Output from this snippet is      May   In a few languages it will make a difference whether you use TextStyle FULL or TextStyle FULL STANDALONE  You will have to see  maybe check with your users  which of the two fits into your context   Use a DateTimeFormatter  If you   ve got a date with or without time of day  I find a DateTimeFormatter more practical  For example       DateTimeFormatter monthFormatter   DateTimeFormatter ofPattern  MMMM   desiredLanguage        ZonedDateTime dateTime   ZonedDateTime of 2019  5  31  23  49  51  0  ZoneId of  America Araguaina         String monthName   dateTime format monthFormatter     I am showing the use of a ZonedDateTime  the closest replacement for the old Calendar class  The above code will work for a LocalDate  a LocalDateTime  MonthDay  OffsetDateTime and a YearMonth too   What if you got a Calendar from a legacy API not yet upgraded to java time  Convert to a ZonedDateTime and proceed as above       Calendar c   getCalendarFromLegacyApi        ZonedDateTime dateTime   DateTimeUtils toZonedDateTime c     The rest is the same as before   Question  Doesn   t java time require Android API level 26   java time works nicely on both older and newer Android devices  It just requires at least Java 6    In Java 8 and later and on newer Android devices  from API level 26  the modern API comes built-in  In non-Android Java 6 and 7 get the ThreeTen Backport  the backport of the modern classes  ThreeTen for JSR 310  see the links at the bottom   On  older  Android use the Android edition of ThreeTen Backport  It   s called ThreeTenABP  And make sure you import the date and time classes from org threeten bp with subpackages    Links   Oracle tutorial  Date Time explaining how to use java time  Java Specification Request  JSR  310  where java time was first described  ThreeTen Backport project  the backport of java time to Java 6 and 7  ThreeTen for JSR-310   ThreeTenABP  Android edition of ThreeTen Backport Question  How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project  with a very thorough explanation

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Use this    Calendar cal Calendar getInstance    SimpleDateFormat month date   new SimpleDateFormat  MMMM    String month name   month date format cal getTime       Month name will contain the full month name  if you want short month name use this   SimpleDateFormat month date   new SimpleDateFormat  MMM     String month name   month date format cal getTime

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Getting a standalone month name is surprisingly difficult to perform  right  in Java   At least as of this writing  I m currently using Java 8     The problem is that in some languages  including Russian and Czech  the standalone version of the month name is different from the  formatting  version  Also  it appears that no single Java API will just give you the  best  string  The majority of answers posted here so far only offer the formatting version  Pasted below is a working solution for getting the standalone version of a single month name  or getting an array with all of them   I hope this saves someone else some time          getStandaloneMonthName  This returns a standalone month name for the specified month  in the    specified locale  In some languages  including Russian and Czech  the standalone version of    the month name is different from the version of the month name you would use as part of a    full date   Different from the formatting version         This tries to get the standalone version first  If no mapping is found for a standalone    version  Presumably because the supplied language has no standalone version   then this will    return the formatting version of the month name      private static String getStandaloneMonthName Month month  Locale locale  boolean capitalize           Attempt to get the standalone version of the month name      String monthName   month getDisplayName TextStyle FULL STANDALONE  locale       String monthNumber        month getValue           If no mapping was found  then get the formatting version of the month name      if  monthName equals monthNumber             DateFormatSymbols dateSymbols   DateFormatSymbols getInstance locale           monthName   dateSymbols getMonths   month getValue                  If needed  capitalize the month name      if   capitalize   amp  amp   monthName    null   amp  amp   monthName length    gt  0             monthName   monthName substring 0  1  toUpperCase locale    monthName substring 1             return monthName            getStandaloneMonthNames  This returns an array with the standalone version of the full month    names      private static String   getStandaloneMonthNames Locale locale  boolean capitalize        Month   monthEnums   Month values        ArrayList lt String gt  monthNamesArrayList   new ArrayList lt  gt         for  Month monthEnum   monthEnums            monthNamesArrayList add getStandaloneMonthName monthEnum  locale  capitalize                 Convert the arraylist to a string array  and return the array      String   monthNames   monthNamesArrayList toArray new String           return monthNames

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As simple as this  mCalendar   Calendar getInstance        String month   mCalendar getDisplayName Calendar MONTH  Calendar LONG  Locale getDefault       Calendar LONG is to get the full name of the month and Calendar SHORT gives the name in short  For eg  Calendar LONG will return January Calendar SHORT will return Jan

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I keep this answer which is useful for other cases  but  trutheality answer seems to be the most simple and direct way   You can use DateFormatSymbols  DateFormatSymbols Locale FRENCH  getMonths   month      FRENCH as an example

[android] Month name as a string

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