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How to get the current month using CalendarUtils in Java
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Overview
In Java, getMonth() is an instance method of the CalendarUtils class that gets the current month of the year.
How to import CalendarUtils
The definition of CalendarUtils can be found in the Apache Commons Lang package. We can add this to the Maven project by adding the following dependency to the pom.xml file:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>3.12.0</version>
</dependency>
For other versions of the commons-lang package, refer to the Maven Repository.
You can import the CalendarUtils class in the following way:
import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.CalendarUtils;
Syntax
public int getMonth()
Parameters
This method has no parameters.
Return value
This method returns an integer value denoting the month of the current year.
Code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.example</groupId>
<artifactId>test</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>3.12.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<transformers>
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
<mainClass>Main</mainClass>
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>Explanation
The maven dependency for CalendarUtils is included in the pom.xml file.
Main.java
- Line 1: We import the
CalendarUtilsclass. - Line 6: We get the instance of the
CalendarUtilsclass calledcalendarUtilsObjectusing the class’INSTANCEconstant. - Line 7: The current month of the year is obtained by invoking the
getMonth()method oncalendarUtilsObject.
Note: ThegetMonth()method counts from 0. This is why we have to add 1 before using it.
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