Display three letter-month value with SimpleDateFormat('MMM') in Java

Using the SimpleDateFormat(“MMM”) to display three-letter month −

Format f = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM"); String strMonth = f.format(new Date()); System.out.println("Month (Three-letter format) = "+strMonth);

Since, we have used the Format and SimpleDateFormat class above, therefore import the following packages. With that, we have also used the Date −

import java.text.Format; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date;

The following is an example −

Example

 Live Demo

import java.text.Format; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import java.util.Calendar; public class Demo {    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {       // displaying current date and time       Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();       SimpleDateFormat simpleformat = new SimpleDateFormat("E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");       System.out.println("Today's date and time = "+simpleformat.format(cal.getTime()));       // displaying date       Format f = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMMM/yyyy");       String strDate = f.format(new Date());       System.out.println("Current Date = "+strDate);       // displaying year       f = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy");       String strYear = f.format(new Date());       System.out.println("Year = "+strYear);       // displaying three-letter month       f = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM");       String strMonth = f.format(new Date());       System.out.println("Month (Three-letter format) = "+strMonth);       // current time       f = new SimpleDateFormat("HH.mm.ss Z");       String strTime = f.format(new Date());       System.out.println("Current Time = "+strTime);       // displaying hour       f = new SimpleDateFormat("H");       String strHour = f.format(new Date());       System.out.println("Current Hour = "+strHour);       // displaying minutes       f = new SimpleDateFormat("mm");     String strMinute = f.format(new Date()); System.out.println("Current Minutes = "+strMinute); // displaying seconds f = new SimpleDateFormat("ss"); String strSeconds = f.format(new Date()); System.out.println("Current Seconds = "+strSeconds); } }

Output

Today's date and time = Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:29:58 +0000 Current Date = 26/November/2018 Year = 2018 Month (Three-letter format) = Nov Current Time = 09.29.58 +0000 Current Hour = 9 Current Minutes = 29 Current Seconds = 58