Gregorian Calendar month of year

Question

All I must do for this code is display the current year, month and day of the year using the GregorianCalendar class. for some reason everything is right but the month. The program returns the month as being 11 instead of 12. Any suggestions?

/**
 * @param args the command line arguments
 */
public static void main(String[] args) {
    GregorianCalendar Calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
    int year = Calendar.get (GregorianCalendar.YEAR);
    int month = Calendar.get (GregorianCalendar.MONTH);
    int day = Calendar.get (GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

    System.out.println("the current year is " + year);
    System.out.println("the current month is " + month);
    System.out.println("the current day is " + day);
}

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '14 at 23:42

Java stores the month numbers as 0-based in Calendar. When you use MONTH, 11 does represent December, so this is correct. You must add 1 to this output to convert to what we're used to -- a range of 1-12.

The first month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars is JANUARY which is 0

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 11 '14 at 23:41

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just add +1, java is counting months starting from 0 i.e.

GregorianCalendar.JANUARY == 0

answered Dec 11 '14 at 23:41

wgitscht

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thank you i figured that i just wanted to make sure that was the proper solution. – Anthony Sofo Dec 11 '14 at 23:46
np you are very welcome. – wgitscht Dec 11 '14 at 23:47

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 11 '14 at 23:42

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Calendar.MONTH is zero-based. Because of this it is 11.

From the API:

The first month of the year is JANUARY which is 0; the last depends on the number of months in a year.

answered Dec 11 '14 at 23:42

Semih Eker

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Gregorian Calendar month of year

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