How to get short month names in Joda Time?

Question

Does anyone know if there's a method in Joda Time or Java itself which takes either an int or a String as an argument, e.g. 4 or "4" and gives the name of the month back in short format, i.e. JAN for January?

I suppose long month names can be truncated and converted to upper case.

Answer 1

In response to Jon's answer, you can further simplify that by using Joda's direct access for datetime classes.

String month = date.toString("MMM"); 

Answer 2

I believe "MMM" will give the month name in Joda... but you'd need to build up an appropriate formatter first. Here's some sample code which prints "Apr" on my box. (You can specify the relevant locale of course.)

import org.joda.time.*; import org.joda.time.format.*;  public class Test {     public static void main(String[] args)     {         // Year and day will be ignored         LocalDate date = new LocalDate(2010, 4, 1);         DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("MMM");         String month = formatter.print(date);         System.out.println(month);     } }