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How to get date, month and year as string or number in Scala?

Here, we are going to learn how to extract the date and then convert it into string or number in the Scala programming language?
Submitted by Shivang Yadav, on April 24, 2020 [Last updated : March 10, 2023]

Scala – Getting Date, Month, and Year as String/Number

The "calendar" class handles working with date and time in Scala, the class generates the current time in the following format,

    Thu Apr 23 06:10:37 GMT 2020

We can extract different parts like date, month, and year.

Scala code to get date

import java.util.Calendar
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

object MyClass {
    def main(args: Array[String]) {
        val cal = Calendar.getInstance
        val dateTime = cal.getTime
        
        println("Full date information : " + dateTime)
        
        val dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd")
        val date = dateFormat.format(dateTime)
        println("Date is : " + date)
        
        val dateFormat2 = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM")
        val month = dateFormat2.format(dateTime)
        println("Month is : " + month)
        
        val dateFormat3 = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY")
        val year = dateFormat3.format(dateTime)
        println("Year is : " + year)
    }
}

Output

Full date information : Fri Apr 24 16:59:22 GMT 2020
Date is : 24
Month is : Apr
Year is : 2020

Extracting month number

In Scala, we can extract the string in the form of the number instead of a string. The date format provides an option for this too.

The format "MM" does our work.

Scala code to extract month as a number

import java.util.Calendar
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

object MyClass {
    def main(args: Array[String]) {
        val cal = Calendar.getInstance
        val dateTime = cal.getTime
        
        val dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM")
        val month = dateFormat.format(dateTime)
        
        println("Month number is : " + month)
    }
}

Output

Month number is : 04

Formatting month string

We can use string formatting methods like toUpperCase and toLowerCase to extract month as an uppercase string or lowercase string.

Scala code to format month as string

import java.util.Calendar
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

object MyClass {
    def main(args: Array[String]) {
        val cal = Calendar.getInstance
        val dateTime = cal.getTime
        
        val dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM")
        val month = dateFormat.format(dateTime).toUpperCase
        println("Month is : " + month)
        
        val Lmonth = dateFormat.format(dateTime).toLowerCase
        println("Month is : " + Lmonth)
    }
}

Output

Month is : APR
Month is : apr

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