Calendar properties

Question

Salutations.
I have been having a great deal of frustration trying to get the MONTH, YEAR, and DATE out of the Calendar.
I used Calendar.InstanceOf().toString(), and the value was as follows:
"java.util.GregorianCalendar[time=1186520352230,areFieldsSet=true,areAllFieldsSet=true,lenient=true,zone=sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id=\"America/New_York\",offset=-18000000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,transitions=235,lastRule=java.util.SimpleTimeZone[id=America/New_York,offset=-18000000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,startYear=0,startMode=3,startMonth=2,startDay=8,startDayOfWeek=1,startTime=7200000,startTimeMode=0,endMode=3,endMonth=10,endDay=1,endDayOfWeek=1,endTime=7200000,endTimeMode=0]],firstDayOfWeek=1,minimalDaysInFirstWeek=1,ERA=1,YEAR=2007,MONTH=7,WEEK_OF_YEAR=32,WEEK_OF_MONTH=2,DAY_OF_MONTH=7,DAY_OF_YEAR=219,DAY_OF_WEEK=3,DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH=1,AM_PM=1,HOUR=4,HOUR_OF_DAY=16,MINUTE=59,SECOND=12,MILLISECOND=230,ZONE_OFFSET=-18000000,DST_OFFSET=3600000]"
As you can see, the year is 2007, the month is 7, and the DAY_OF_MONTH is 7.
However, when I use the Calendar.MONTH or
Calendar.InstanceOf().Month I get: 2
For YEAR: 1
For Day: 5.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

the month is 7, andNot that it's relevant to your original question, but the numerical value of the month in a Calendar is not relevant. You don't care what that value is. Don't try to use those values directly.
However, when I use the Calendar.MONTH or
Calendar.InstanceOf().Month I get: 2Calendar.MONTH isn't the value of that Calendar's month. It's simply the constant that indicates that the month is the field you're interested in.