storing current month in shell variable..

[Mulley, Nikhil]

Hi , 
Nikhil again ... :)
I wanna store the current month in a shell variable , for which I am attempting to do like this ...
#!/usr/bin/sh
MON=`(date | awk '{print $2}')
echo $MON
But when I execute the script , I get nothing...
Can anyone point me in where I have gone wrong ??

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