Generate month in character from calendar java into a variable

Question

Good day all,

I was trying to create a date variable by using Calendar java, the following is my example code:

long day = System.currentTimeMillis();
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
java.text.SimpleDateFormat month = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MMM"); // not sure how to assign this value inside
cal.setTimeInMillis(day);
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 00);
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 00);
cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 00);
cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 000);
Date todayDate = cal.getTime();

Timestamp current = new Timestamp(todayDate.getTime());

However, the value of current I get is 2014-01-13 00:00:00.0. I prefer to set the 01 to Jan instead.

Any ideas on this?

Answer 1

You mean something like so?

        long day = System.currentTimeMillis();
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        java.text.SimpleDateFormat month = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss:S"); // not sure how to assign this value inside
        cal.setTimeInMillis(day);
        cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 00);
        cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 00);
        cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 00);
        cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 000);
        Date todayDate = cal.getTime();

        Timestamp current = new Timestamp(todayDate.getTime());
        System.out.println(month.format(current));

Yields:

2014-Jan-13 00:00:00:0

Please check the SimpleDateFormat for more formatting options.