Utilities - Calendar, TimeZone, Date, etc.

Question

Could someone tell me why my code is not returning the correct month and day? When I run the program, I got the month as 5 and the day as 3, when it's actually 6 (June) and 11 (day).
Thanks!
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class DateTest {
     public DateTest() {
          GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
          TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York_City");
          cal.getInstance(tz, Locale.US);
          String timeZone = tz.getID();
          int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
          int day = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
          System.out.println(month);
          System.out.println(day);
          System.out.println(timeZone);
          // System.out.println(cal.toString());
          // SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat();
     public static void main( String[] args) {
          new DateTest();
}

Answer 1

It's weird I know, but this is how it goes: Months start at 0. So 0 would be January, 1 Feb, etc. Don't ask me why. The reason why you're getting 3 is because it's the third day of the week. Try changing it to this.
int day = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);And that should work. Add one to the month, that's just a terrible idea on their part in my opinion, but that's how it goes.