Question

Where the day today is Oct 24, 2011 .

but using this code

  Calendar currentDate = Calendar.getInstance();
  int d = currentDate.DAY_OF_MONTH;

gives me the date 5

P.S. the date in emulator settings is October 24, 2011

Answer 1

 currentDate.DAY_OF_MONTH; 

is constant which is used internally in Calendar class. To get the current day of month use

use

currentDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

Update:

how to shift the current date 6 days, and get the new day and month value ?
//adding 6 days
currentDate.add(Calendar.DATE, 6);

//retrieving the month now, note month starts from 0-Jan, 1-Feb
currentDate.get(Calendar.MONTH);