The now() method of the YearMonth class in Java is used to obtain the current year-month from the system clock in the default time-zone.
Syntax:
public static YearMonth now()
Parameters: This method does not accept any parameter.
Return value: This method returns the current year-month using the system clock and default time-zone.
Below programs illustrate the now() method of YearMonth in Java:
Program 1:
// Java program to demonstrate// YearMonth.now() method import java.time.*;import java.time.temporal.*; public class GFG { public static void main(String[] args) { // apply now() method // of YearMonth class YearMonth result = YearMonth.now(); // print both year and month System.out.println("YearMonth: " + result); }} |
Output:
YearMonth: 2020-05
Program 2:
// Java program to demonstrate// YearMonth.now() method import java.time.*;import java.time.temporal.*; public class GFG { public static void main(String[] args) { // apply now() method // of YearMonth class YearMonth result = YearMonth.now(); // print only year System.out.println( "Year: " + result.get(ChronoField.YEAR)); }} |
Output:
Year: 2020
References: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api/java/time/YearMonth.html#now()
