Java Calendar getting current month value clarification needed

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On November 1st       Calendar getInstance   get Calendar MONTH      prints 10  October    It would make sense if we start with 0  but it appears that we do not    Calendar getInstance   get Calendar JANUARY      prints 1   What am i missing please

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Use Calendar getInstance   get Calendar MONTH  1 to get current month

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Calendar getInstance   get Calendar MONTH     is zero based  10 is November  From the javadoc      public static final int MONTH   Field number for get and set indicating the month  This is a   calendar-specific value  The first month of the year in the Gregorian   and Julian calendars is JANUARY which is 0  the last depends on the   number of months in a year    Calendar getInstance   get Calendar JANUARY     is not a sensible thing to do  the value for JANUARY is 0  which is the same as ERA  you are effectively calling   Calendar getInstance   get Calendar ERA

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import java util     class GetCurrentmonth       public static void main String args                  int month          GregorianCalendar date   new GregorianCalendar                  month   date get Calendar MONTH           month   month 1          System out println  Current month is      month

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as others said Calendar MONTH returns int and is zero indexed   to get the current month as a String use SimpleDateFormat format   method  Calendar cal   Calendar getInstance    System out println new SimpleDateFormat  MMM   format cal getTime       returns NOV

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Months in Java Calendar are 0-indexed  Calendar JANUARY isn t a field so you shouldn t be passing it in to the get method

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Calendar get takes as argument one of the standard Calendar fields  like YEAR or MONTH not a month name   Calendar JANUARY is 0  which is also the value of Calendar ERA  so Calendar getInstance   get 0  will return the era  in this case Calendar AD  which is 1   For the first part of your question  note that  as is wildly documented  months start at 0  so 10 is actually November

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