Question

I am using GregorianCalander and when i tried to get todays date using the following code i am getting a date which is backdated to one month. The code i have used is as follows.

        Calendar gcal = new GregorianCalendar();
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
        today = getTime(gcal);
        //date = dateFormat.format(calendar.getTime());
        System.out.println("Today: " + today);

Please help me to solve this issue.

The output is :

Today: Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 NZST 2011

EDIT

private Date getTime(Calendar gcal) {
    try {
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
        String day = form_helper.round(gcal.get(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
        String month = form_helper.round(gcal.get(GregorianCalendar.MONTH));
        String year = form_helper.round(gcal.get(GregorianCalendar.YEAR));
        String date = day + "/" + month + "/" + year;
        System.out.println(sdf.parse(date));
        return sdf.parse(date);
    } catch (ParseException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(timesheet_utility.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }
    return null;
}

Answer 1

I think internal numbering of months starts with 0, not 1. So, you probably need to somewhere add +1.
Edit: after you showed some more code: The needed change is

String month = form_helper.round(gcal.get(GregorianCalendar.MONTH) + 1);