Help on classes and methods

Question

I have a date class with a method which is suppose to return the date value a user type in. But no matter what the input is, it keeps returning 0/0/0. really don't know what to do.
Please help frustration is setting up quickly.
import java.util.*;
import static java.lang.System.in;
import static java.lang.System.out;
public class Date1 {
protected int day;
     protected int month;
     protected int year;
     protected static final int MINYEAR = 1583;
     public Date1(int newMonth, int newDay, int newYear)throws DateOutOfBoundsException
               if((newMonth <= 0) || (newMonth > 12)){
                    throw new DateOutOfBoundsException(" Month must be in the range 1 to 12");
               }else{
               int month = newMonth;};
               int day = newDay;
               if (newYear < MINYEAR){
                    throw new DateOutOfBoundsException(" Year : " + newYear + " is too early");
               }else{
                         int year = newYear;};
     public int monthIs(){
          return month;
     public int dayIs(){
          return day;
     public int yearIs(){
          return year;
     public String toString(){
          return(month + "/" + day + "/" + year);
     public class DateOutOfBoundsException extends Exception {
     public DateOutOfBoundsException(){
          super();
     public DateOutOfBoundsException(String message){
          super(message);
     public static void main(String[] args)throws DateOutOfBoundsException{
          Scanner myScanner = new Scanner(in);
          Date1 theDate;
          int M, D, Y;
          out.print("Please Enter a month to check for its validity: ");
          M = myScanner.nextInt();
          out.print("Please Enter a day to check for its validity: ");
          D = myScanner.nextInt();
          out.print("Please Enter a year to check for its validity: ");
          Y = myScanner.nextInt();
          theDate = new Date1(M, D, Y);
          out.println(theDate);
Edited by: edersio on Oct 25, 2007 11:44 AM

Answer 1

ShoeNinja wrote:
You can't just print the date object. I think what you meant to do was:
out.println(theDate.toString());
Nonsense. When you pass this object to out, its toString method will be invoked.
The problem is in the constructor:
int month = newMonth;This assigns newMonth to a local variable. To assign to a field, write:
this.month = newMonth;or just
month = newMonth;