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

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));