Day of Week/Month/Year or Week Number
Problem
You have a date and need to find what day of the week, month, or year that date falls on.
Solution
Use the Calendar
class’s get( )
method, which has constants for
retrieving most such values.
Discussion
The Calendar
class can return most of these:
// CalendarDemo.java Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance( ); // today System.out.println("Year: " + c.get(Calendar.YEAR)); System.out.println("Month: " + c.get(Calendar.MONTH)); System.out.println("Day: " + c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)); System.out.println("Day of week = " + c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)); System.out.println("Day of year = " + c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR)); System.out.println("Week in Year: " + c.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR)); System.out.println("Week in Month: " + c.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH)); System.out.println("Day of Week in Month: " + c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH)); System.out.println("Hour: " + c.get(Calendar.HOUR)); System.out.println("AM or PM: " + c.get(Calendar.AM_PM)); System.out.println("Hour (24-hour clock): " + c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)); System.out.println("Minute: " + c.get(Calendar.MINUTE)); System.out.println("Second: " + c.get(Calendar.SECOND));
This chatty program shows most of the fields in the
Calendar
class:
Year: 1999 Month: 6 Day: 19 Day of week = 2 Day of year = 200 Week in Year: 30 Week in Month: 4 Day of Week in Month: 3 Hour: 3 AM or PM: 1 Hour (24-hour clock): 15 Minute: 18 Second: 42
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