How to get all the information about current date in Java?

Problem Description :

Write a program in that prints following information about current date in Java.

• Day of month
• Month number
• Month name
• Year
• Day number of week
• Day name
• Week of month
• Week of year
• Hour in 12-hour format
• Hour in 24-hour format
• Minutes
• Seconds
• Milliseconds 

Print every information about given date in Java

Concept :

We are using following method of Calendar class that is present in java.util.* package.

public int get(int field) -> In this method we are passing following Calendar class constants for getting required information.

• static int DAY_OF_MONTH -> Provides Day of month.
• static int MONTH -> Provides Month number, for getting month name we are using switch case.
• static int YEAR -> Provodes Year.
• static int DAY_OF_WEEK -> Provides Day number of week, for getting day name we are using switch case.
• static int WEEK_OF_MONTH -> Provides Week number of month.
• static int WEEK_OF_YEAR -> Provides Week number of year.
• static int HOUR -> Provides Hour in 12-hour format.
• static int HOUR_OF_DAY -> Provides Hour in 24-hour format.
• static int MINUTE -> Provides Minutes.
• static int SECOND -> Provides Seconds.
• static int MILLISECOND -> Provides Milliseconds.

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Java Program :

	package com.javamultiplex.datetime;
	import java.util.Calendar;
	import java.util.Date;
	/**
	*
	* @author Rohit Agarwal
	* @category Date and Time
	* @problem How to get all information about current date?
	*
	*/
	public class DateInformation {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
	// Creating Calendar class instance.
	Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
	// Converting Calendar to Date.
	Date date = calendar.getTime();
	System.out.println("Current date : " + date);
	System.out.println("\n--Date information--");
	int dayofMonth = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
	System.out.println("Day of month : " + dayofMonth);
	int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH); // 0 - January, 11 - December
	System.out.println("Month number : " + (month + 1));
	String monthName = getMonthName(month);
	System.out.println("Month Name: " + monthName);
	int year = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
	System.out.println("Year : " + year);
	int dayofWeek = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
	System.out.println("Day of week : " + dayofWeek);
	String dayName = getDayName(dayofWeek);
	System.out.println("Day name : " + dayName);
	int weekofMonth = calendar.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH);
	System.out.println("Week of month :" + weekofMonth);
	int weekofYear = calendar.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR);
	System.out.println("Week of year : " + weekofYear);
	int hour = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR);
	System.out.println("Hour in 12-hour format : " + hour);
	int hourofDay = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
	System.out.println("Hour in 24-hour format : " + hourofDay);
	int minute = calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
	System.out.println("Minutes : " + minute);
	int second = calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND);
	System.out.println("Seconds : " + second);
	int millisecond = calendar.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND);
	System.out.println("Milliseconds : " + millisecond);
	}
	private static String getDayName(int dayofWeek) {
	String dayName = null;
	switch (dayofWeek) {
	case 1:
	dayName = "Sunday";
	break;
	case 2:
	dayName = "Monday";
	break;
	case 3:
	dayName = "Tuesday";
	break;
	case 4:
	dayName = "Wednesday";
	break;
	case 5:
	dayName = "Thursday";
	break;
	case 6:
	dayName = "Friday";
	break;
	case 7:
	dayName = "Saturday";
	break;
	}
	return dayName;
	}
	private static String getMonthName(int month) {
	String monthName = null;
	switch (month) {
	case 0:
	monthName = "January";
	break;
	case 1:
	monthName = "February";
	break;
	case 2:
	monthName = "March";
	break;
	case 3:
	monthName = "April";
	break;
	case 4:
	monthName = "May";
	break;
	case 5:
	monthName = "June";
	break;
	case 6:
	monthName = "July";
	break;
	case 7:
	monthName = "August";
	break;
	case 8:
	monthName = "September";
	break;
	case 9:
	monthName = "October";
	break;
	case 10:
	monthName = "November";
	break;
	case 11:
	monthName = "December";
	break;
	}
	return monthName;
	}
	}

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Output :

Output - How to print every information about current date in Java?

Similar Problem :

How to get all the information about any given date in Java?

Solution - This is very simple first of all Convert given Date to Calendar and rest is same as above.

References :

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#get(int)

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