How to display First three letters of the month in android datepicker

Question

In date Picker I tried to get month in letter others are in integer It's returning full name of the month. But i want first threes letters of the month.

i tried:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy,MMMM, dd ");
System.out.println(sdf.format(new SimpleDateFormat(new Date()).toString()));

output: 2013-October-18

I want output as : 2013-Oct-18

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '15 at 05:59

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Use MMM, like this SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd ")

answered Oct 20 '15 at 05:59

Hasanaga

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '15 at 06:02

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Try the following code.Hopefully this will work...

Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat month_date = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM");
String month_name = month_date.format(cal.getTime());

answered Oct 20 '15 at 06:02

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How to display First three letters of the month in android datepicker

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