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()