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Java Calendar – How to get day month year in date

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

We can get day, month and year from date object in Calendar. Calendar class gives us option to get day, month, and year separately in integer value. We have to use get() method of the calendar and pass value according to what we required in day, month or year from date.

Example of getting day, month and year in date

import java.util.Calendar;

public class GetDate {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Calendar ca1 = Calendar.getInstance();

        /// get day month year from set date
        ca1.set(2009, 05, 15); // dont set this date if current date is required

        int iDay=ca1.get(Calendar.DATE);
        int iMonth=ca1.get(Calendar.MONTH); // In Current date Add 1 in month
        int iYear=ca1.get(Calendar.YEAR);

        System.out.println("Day :"+iDay);
        System.out.println("Month :"+iMonth);
        System.out.println("Year :"+iYear);
    }
}

Output shown

Day :15
Month :5
Year :2009