Calculating the day of the year

Question:

How do you calculate the day of the year?

Answer:

Getting the field DAY_OF_YEAR in the Calendar class.

Code:

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
 
public class DayOfYear {
 
   public static void main(String[] args) {
 
      Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
 
      int day = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);   
 
      Date date = calendar.getTime();
      System.out.println(date);
 
      System.out.println("Today is day " + day + " of the year");
 
   }
}

Output:

$ java DayOfYear 
Sun Feb 16 15:42:22 EST 2014
Today is day 47 of the year