Gregorian Calendar in Java

GregorianCalendar is a hybrid calendar that supports both the Julian and Gregorian calendar systems with the support of a single discontinuity, which corresponds by default to the Gregorian date when the Gregorian calendar was instituted.

The java.util.GregorianCalendar class in Java is a concrete subclass of Calendar and provides the standard calendar system used by most of the world.

Import the following package to work with GregorianCalendar class.

import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

The following are the constructors.

Example

 Live Demo

import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
public class Demo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      GregorianCalendar cal = (GregorianCalendar) GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
      System.out.println("" + cal.getTime());
   }
}

Output

Mon Nov 19 15:57:40 UTC 2018