Calendar class - starts with month 0?

[Dan Walin]

I have a concern with the Calendar class, specifically with the MONTH field. Each month is assigned a value beginning with 0. This presents a problem when trying to display a date using a normal date format. Since JANUARY = 0, FEBRUARY = 1, etc. If I want the current date (which should give me "9/14/2004" using the following code:

String mmddyyyy = Integer.toString(c.get(Calendar.MONTH)) + "/"
             + Integer.toString(c.get(Calendar.DATE)) + "/"
             + Integer.toString(c.get(Calendar.YEAR));     

I get "8/14/2004". I know I can just add 1 to the resulting month and I know counting in Java always starts at zero, but it seems like there should have been a better way so that every code that uses MONTH doesn't need to have " + 1" in it. Is there something that I'm not understanding and maybe a better way to do this?

[Michael Dunn]

import java.util.*;
class Testing
{
  public Testing()
  {
    Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    String mmddyyyy = Integer.toString(c.get(Calendar.MONTH)) + "/"
                     + Integer.toString(c.get(Calendar.DATE)) + "/"
                     + Integer.toString(c.get(Calendar.YEAR));
    System.out.println(mmddyyyy);
    System.out.println(new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").format(c.getTime()));
  }
  public static void main(String[] args){new Testing();}
}

[Dan Walin]

Thanks!