Question

i want to display the current date in this format Wednesday march 28,2012 , i wrote a method to get this format but it gives invalid values of the date (since when i run the code it gives Saturday sep2,1933) why is that ? what is the error in my code?

this is my code:

public class AddExercise extends Activity
 {   
   private Date   exercise_date;
   private TextView   date_Txt;
   Calendar localCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
  {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.add_exercise);

    int  year = localCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    int  month = localCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    int day = localCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
    exercise_date = new Date(day, month , yr);
    date_Txt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.date);
    String  x=formatdate(exercise_date, "EEEE MMM d, yyyy");
    date_Txt.setText(x);
        }

        public static String formatdate(Date paramDate, String paramString)
  {
    String str;
    if (paramDate != null)
    {
      if (paramString == null)
        paramString = "MMMM dd, yyyy";
      str = new SimpleDateFormat(paramString).format(paramDate);
    }
    else
    {
      str = null;
    }
    return str;
  }     
     }

Answer 1

This is primarily because you are using deprecated Date() constructor.
It requires following Parameters:
year – the year minus 1900.
month – the month between 0-11.
date – the day of the month between 1-31.
But you are passing incorrect year altogether

Why don’t you simply do this:

return new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd,yyyy").format(localCalendar.getTime())

or better yet

return new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM dd,yyyy").format(new Date()));

Instead of jumping through all the hoops?