How to get day of month from calender

Question

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println("Date and Time: "+now.get(Calendar.YEAR)+"-"
                    +now.get(Calendar.MONTH)+"-"
                    +now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)+" "
                    + now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)
                    + ":"
                    + now.get(Calendar.MINUTE));

It gives Output >>Date and Time : 2016-7-8 16:10

But I want >>Date and Time : 2016-8-8 16:10

Means it gives the day of month wrong,then how to rewrite above code for correct output.

It's not the day of month that is incorrect, but the month itself. Refer to the linked question for explanation. — Tunaki, Aug 08 '16 at 10:38
Java Calendar api is indexed. Starts from 0 and ends with 11 so it's a correct output. — Imran, Aug 08 '16 at 10:38

Raman Sahasi · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-08T11:34:05.433

It's not giving wrong output. In java's Calendar, months are zero indexed.

see the documentation here.

MONTH

public static final int MONTH

Field number for get and set indicating the month. This is a calendar-specific value. The first month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars is JANUARY which is 0; the last depends on the number of months in a year.

It means they're starting from 0 to 11.

0 - January
1 - February
2 - March
3 - April
4 - May
5 - June
6 - July
7 - August
8 - September
9 - October
10 - November
11 - December

... and so on

You can simply add 1 and get the code working for you.

How to get day of month from calender

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