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Asked: 2026-06-03T22:41:44+00:00

Edit: Thanks- I understand it a lot more now. Its very confusing when you

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Edit: Thanks- I understand it a lot more now. Its very confusing when you first start! Thanks for the help. I am going to keep the question up as is ( in peril of more downvotes) as it might help others. There are some other libraries that everyone seems to recommend for date time

I am struggling with the Java calendar function- its seems to be returning wrong data the bottom figure should be a thursday according to calendar, but is returning as a saturday! 

Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
       cal.set(2012,2,23); // 0 = January

      String weekdays[]={"sunday","monday", "tuesday", "wednesday","thursday","friday","saturday",};

        Integer Weekdaycurrent1=cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
        System.out.println("today is a "+weekdays[Weekdaycurrent1]); //Prints today is Saturday, when it should be a thursday
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  1. Editorial Team

    For starters, DAY_OF_WEEK is 1 based:

    public final static int SUNDAY = 1;

    Secondly, 2012-03-23 (yes, Mar not Feb) as set by cal.set(2012, 2, 23) was a Friday

    Your code is behaving correctly.

    Edited: For those too lame to read the question properly, calling cal.set(2012,2,23) sets the date to 2012-03-23, because the month parameter is zero-based (ie Jan = 0, Feb = 1, Mar = 2, etc)

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