calendar error

[Abigail Decan]

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Calendar;
public class Q2{
public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException,
ClassNotFoundException
{
Calendar date = Calendar.getInstance();
int month = date.get(Calendar.MONTH);
System.out.println(month);
}
}

i expected on output of

3, since it's March.

but somehow i'm getting a 2.

i have no clue how to fix this and what i'm doing wrong.

[Jesper de Jong]

Unfortunately, months are zero-based in class Calendar. So, 0 = January, 1 = February, 2 = March, etc., until 11 = December. That's just how class Calendar was designed.

Note: You do not need to declare that your class might throw ClassNotFoundException. Remove line 10.

[Abigail Decan]

i see, thanks!


and i cleaned my code. thanks for the tip

[fred rosenberger]

You should learn to read the java API. This has all the documentation for the predefined classes, including the Calendar class. It states in there:

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.

(emphasis added by me)

Usually, when I'm coding, I always have that page open to check and see what things do.