Could someone please help me fix my date class?

Question

I'm trying to use a string made from the current day/month/year to create a new directory. It makes a directory, but it appears not to initialize to the current date. Here is the output: /home/rick/testDir/Sunday_March_1 (and it appears in my local directory structure). Today's date is Monday_September_2008. How do I get the correct string?
public void createDir(){
          GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
          String currentDate = new String();
          cal.setTime(new Date());
          cal.setFirstDayOfWeek(0);
          int day = Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK;
          int month = Calendar.MONTH;
          int intYear = Calendar.YEAR;
          Integer year = Integer.valueOf(intYear);
          currentDate = "/home/rick/testDir/" + dayToString(day) + '_' + monthToString(month) + '_' + year.toString();
          File f = new File(currentDate);
          f.mkdir();
          System.out.println(currentDate);
     }

Answer 1

Rick_Avlonitis wrote:
I'm trying to use a string made from the current day/month/year to create a new directory. It makes a directory, but it appears not to initialize to the current date. Here is the output: /home/rick/testDir/Sunday_March_1 (and it appears in my local directory structure). Today's date is Monday_September_2008. How do I get the correct string?
public void createDir(){
          GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
          String currentDate = new String();
          cal.setTime(new Date());
          cal.setFirstDayOfWeek(0);
          int day = Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK;
          int month = Calendar.MONTH;
          int intYear = Calendar.YEAR;
          Integer year = Integer.valueOf(intYear);
          currentDate = "/home/rick/testDir/" + dayToString(day) + '_' + monthToString(month) + '_' + year.toString();
          File f = new File(currentDate);
          f.mkdir();
          System.out.println(currentDate);
Well, I don't know your day- and monthToString methods...
But remenber that Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK etc. are static and will always return the same value.
Read [http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/GregorianCalendar.html]