Java Program to Display Name of a Month in (MMM) Format

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Java is a most powerful programming language, by which we can do many things and Java is an industry preferable language. So it has a huge field of features. Here we discuss one of the best features of Java, that is how we can represent Month in a short form or MMM Format.

There are two ways to do this using some classes:

Method 1: Using SimpleDateFormat and Date class

Here Date class provides the current date and time, and SimpleDateFormat class use to format the date in some format, here the month will be shown in MMM format.
SimpleDateFormat class comes under Text package in Java and Date class comes under the util package in Java. Date constructor initializes the object with the current date and time.
SimpleDateFormat is a class for formatting and parsing date.

Example

Java

// Java Program to format the date in MMM
// format using SimpleDateFormat() method
 
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public class GFG {
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        // initialize Date class
        Date date = new Date();
         
        // initialize SimpleDateFormat class
        // it accepts the format of date
        // here it accepts the "MMM" format for month
        SimpleDateFormat month = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM");
         
        //"format" use to format the date in to string
        String currentMonth = month.format(date);
        
 
        System.out.println(currentMonth);
    }
}

Output

Nov

Method 2: Using Formatter class

We can use Formatter class to print the month in short form.
Here we use this class with Date class. There is format specifier “%tb” is use to print short month.
There are many format specifier for other works also. If we use “%tB”, then it will become full month. See below code,

Java

// Java Program to Display Name of a Month in
// (MMM) Format using Formatter class
 
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Formatter;
public class GFG {
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        // initialize Date class
        Date date = new Date();
 
        // initialize Formatter class
        Formatter fm = new Formatter();
 
        //"format" use to format the month name in to string
        // from the date object
        //"%tb" is use to print the Month in MMM form
        fm.format("%tb", date);
 
        System.out.println(fm);
    }
}

Output

Nov

Method 3: Use Formatter class with Calendar class

This class also returns the current date and time.

Example

Java

// Java Program to Display Name of a Month in
// (MMM) Format using Formatter class with
// Calendar class
 
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Formatter;
public class GFG {
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        // initialize Formatter class
        Formatter fm = new Formatter();
 
        // initialize Calendar class
        //"getInstance()" return a Calendar instance based
        //on the current time and date
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
 
        // formatting month into string form the date object
        fm.format("%tb", cal);
 
        System.out.println(fm);
    }
}