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Why does Java’s Date.getYear() return 111 instead of 2011?

I am trying to get the year, month and day form a Date-object, but the following gives me something completely random:

    Date d = new Date();
    System.out.println(d.getYear() + " - " + d.getMonth() + " - " + d.getDay());

I get: 112 – 9 – 1

Does anyone know why? And do you have a bette apporch? For my program i need the Date objects.

Answer 1

Reading the javadoc of these three methods (which are deprecated and thus shouldn’t be used, BTW) would tell you why:

• 112 : number of years since 1900
• 9: month number, starting from 0 (so 9 means october)
• 1: day of month

Use a Calendar to get date fields, and a DateFormat to format dates.