How to get day of the month?

Question

I am trying to retrieve which day of the month it is.

Such as today is August 29,2011.

What i would like to do is just get the days number such as 29, or 30.

Answer 1

//This will get you the day of the month
String.valueOf((Calendar.getInstance()).get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH))

Answer 2

You'll want to do get a Calendar instance and get it's day of month

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
int dayOfMonth = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

String dayOfMonthStr = String.valueOf(dayOfMonth);

You can also get DAY_OF_WEEK, DAY_OF_YEAR, DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH, etc.

Answer 3

LocalDate date = new Date(); date.lengthOfMonth()

or

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("YYYY-MM-dd");

DateTimeFormatter monthFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMM");

String stringDate = formatter.format(date);

String month = monthFormatter.format(date);

Answer 4

Take a look at GregorianCalendar, something like:

final Calendar now = GregorianCalendar.getInstance()
final int dayNumber = now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

Answer 5

You could start by reading the documentation for Date. Then you realize that Date’s methods are all deprecated and turn to Calender instead.

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println(now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));

Answer 6

Java 8 Update

Java 8 introduces the following packages for time and date manipulation.

java.time.*;
java.time.format.*;

java.time.chono.*;    
java.time.temporal.*;
java.time.zone.*;

These are more organized and intuitive.

We need only top two packages for the discussion.
There are 3 top level classes - LocalDate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime for describing Date, Time and DateTime respectively. Although, they are formatted properly in toString(), each class has format method which accepts DateTimeFormatter to format in customized way.

DateTimeFormatter can also be used show the date given a day. It has few

import java.time.*;
import java.time.format.*;

class DateTimeDemo{
    public static void main(String...args){
        LocalDateTime x = LocalDateTime.now();
        System.out.println(x.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate(FormatStyle.FULL)));//Shows Day and Date.

        System.out.println(x.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EE")));//Short Form
        System.out.println(x.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEEE")));//Long Form

    }
}

ofLocalizedTime accepts FormatStyle which is an enumeration in java.time.format

ofPattern accepts String with restricted pattern characters of restricted length. Here are the characters which can be passed into the toPattern method.

You can try different number of patterns to see how the output will be.

Check out more about Java 8 DateTime API here