Contradictions with Java Calendar API

[dinesh laxman kumar]

hi guys,

I have a small snippet wherein i am converting a String to Date ,
After which I set the date to a calendar and then

String startDate = "2012-10-25";
      Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse(startDate);
      Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
      cal.setTime(date);

when i print the calendar object

System.out.println(cal);

I get the correct output

java.util.GregorianCalendar[time=1351103400000,areFieldsSet=true,areAllFieldsSet=true,lenient=true,zone=sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="Asia/Calcutta",offset=19800000,dstSavings=0,
useDaylight=false,transitions=6,lastRule=null],firstDayOfWeek=1,minimalDaysInFirstWeek=1,ERA=1,YEAR=2012,MONTH=9,WEEK_OF_YEAR=43,WEEK_OF_MONTH=4,
DAY_OF_MONTH=25,DAY_OF_YEAR=299,DAY_OF_WEEK=5,DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH=4,AM_PM=0,HOUR=0,HOUR_OF_DAY=0,
MINUTE=0,SECOND=0,MILLISECOND=0,ZONE_OFFSET=19800000,DST_OFFSET=0]

when i print the day of the year separately like

System.out.println(cal.DAY_OF_YEAR);

The output is "6";

Help please,

Thanks in advance

[Ulf Dittmer]

What you want is "cal.get(cal.DAY_OF_YEAR)" or something like that.

[dinesh laxman kumar]

Dittmer,

Many thanks, getting the right output,

By the way why that contradiction???

[Jeff Verdegan]

dinesh laxman kumar wrote:Dittmer,

Many thanks, getting the right output,

By the way why that contradiction???

It's not a contradiction. It was simply a case of you not reading the documentation closely enough, or not understanding it.

DAY_OF_YEAR (along with HOUR, MINUTE, etc.) is an int constant. In the case of DAY_OF_YEAR, the value is 6. It's always 6. When you call the get(int) method, the int tells it which field you want to get. So when you say get(DAY_OF_YEAR), you're saying get(field number 6).

[dinesh laxman kumar]

Oops, thanks for the input...

Thanks Jeff and Dittmer again,

Have a nice day...