Month name as a string

Question

I\'m trying to return the name of the month as a String, for instance \"May\", \"September\", \"November\".

I tried:

int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH         


        

Answer 1

I would recommend to use Calendar object and Locale since month names are different for different languages:

// index can be 0 - 11
private String getMonthName(final int index, final Locale locale, final boolean shortName)
{
    String format = "%tB";

    if (shortName)
        format = "%tb";

    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(locale);
    calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, index);
    calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);

    return String.format(locale, format, calendar);
}

Example for full month name:

System.out.println(getMonthName(0, Locale.US, false));

Result: January

Example for short month name:

System.out.println(getMonthName(0, Locale.US, true));

Result: Jan