Passing the month dynamically for Calender

Question

Hi,
I have date which is fetched from Database, which is in this format "dd/mm/yyyy" those value is 10/02/2010.
I have parsed these values and now using Calender class, i need to add another 110 days to it. Hence the final result should be 30/05/2010 (30th May, 2010)
Hence i thought of using Calender.add(Calender.DAY_OF_MONTH,110); this will fetch the right results, but i shouldnot hardcode the month as it is coming from DB(it can be any month). Hence i tried using the Calender.add(Calender.FEBRUARY,110) that doesnot work eitheir same is the case with
Calender.add(2,110) , here "2" is for the month of "FEB". Is there any way to pass the month and the day (coming from DB) along with the amount (110 days) to get the final date? Please shed some light into this.
Thanks,
Rithu

Answer 1

Rithanya wrote:
Thanks for the respone... the Calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 110) will give the correct result, but the pbm here is the Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR or
Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH will take the current date month, which is "Feb". I dont need that to be specified using these contants, because i my case these
i will be getting the DB(it can be any month /day/year) like 10/25/2011 (mm/dd/yyyy), these i need to parse to get the respective "mm", "dd" and "yyyy" and for this date that is (10/25/2011) i need to add 110 days more and not for the current date (02/15/2010)? I hope you got it. hence the Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR cant be used. Please respond.Perhaps this means that if your Calendar object contains the current date, then the result of that operation will be adding 110 days to the current date. Yes, this is true. However if the Calendar object contains some other date, then the result of that operation will be adding 110 days to that other date.
In which case, yes, you should set the Calendar Object to the correct date before you add 110 days to it. Otherwise, all that raving about the constants looks like nonsense if you read it literally.