Question

I have a date string “2012-01-26” which I get from JSON.

I have to now check if the month and year is as current year than display data it in ListView.

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MM-DD");
  try {
      Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(); 
      c.setTime(dateFormat.parse(event_start_date));
      int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
      System.out.println(c.get(Calendar.YEAR));
      System.out.println("month is"+month);
 }

Year value is always correct, but the Month is always zero.What am I missing guys?

Answer 1

You are fetching month using Calendar’s instance.

int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);

So you will get current month (i.e. January)
And it means 0. So the result is correct.

Check this.

month – The month that was set (0-11) for compatibility with Calendar.

If you want the month of event_start_date, then you won’t have to use calendar’s instance at all.

You can fetch it using

int month = event_start_date.getMonth();