Question

Can anyone please help me understand why I am getting different month values for

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");    
System.out.println(dateFormat.format(cal.getTime()) 
                   + "--" 
                   + cal.get(Calendar.MONTH));

Surprisingly displays

09/09/2012--8

Answer 1

In Calendar class, MONTH start from index 0. So, January is 0, February is 1, and hence September is 8.

P.S.: – That’s true that this is an Inconsistency in Calendar class, so I would suggest you to take a look at Joda-Time API to make your life easier while working with date-time data.