Getting the number of days in the month in Velocity

days-in-month.vtl

## Get a Date object for today
#set($today = $date.getDate())

## Get a Calendar Object
#set($cal = $date.getCalendar())

## Set the Calendar Object to today
#set($_x = $cal.setTime($today))

##get the number of days in the month:
#set($days = $cal.getActualMaximum(5))

## Note: 5 corresponds to Calendar.DATE:
## http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/constant-values.html#java.util.Calendar.DATE

<p>There are $days days in this ${date.format('MMMM yyyy', $today)}.</p>

#set($aDate = $date.toDate("yyyy-MM-dd","2014-02-01"))
#set($_x = $cal.setTime($aDate))
#set($days = $cal.getActualMaximum(5))

<p>There are $days days in ${date.format('MMMM yyyy', $aDate)}.</p>

#set($bDate = $date.toDate("yyyy-MM-dd","2012-02-01"))
#set($_x = $cal.setTime($bDate))
#set($days = $cal.getActualMaximum(5))

<p>There are $days days in ${date.format('MMMM yyyy', $bDate)}.</p>