how to quickly get current year/month ?

[Steve Mutanson]

How to quickly get current year and month ? I guess there are different ways but can somebody show me an easy way ?
thanks,

[Michael Dunn]

One of the ways

import java.util.*;
class testing
{
  public static void main(String args[])
  {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    int year = cal.get(cal.YEAR);
    int month = cal.get(cal.MONTH)+1; //zero-based
    System.out.println("year = "+year+"\nmonth = "+month);
    System.exit(0);
  }
}

[Jamie Robertson]

if you just want a String representation of the current date, use the SimpleDateFormat class:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyyMM" );
String today = formatter.format( new java.util.Date() );

Jamie