java - Calendar.Month gives wrong output

Question

I have been using java.util for all date and calendar representations. But I am facing a strange problem here. Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, etc all give wrong outputs. But when I use Calendar.getTime(), I get the right output. What might be the problem?

public class TestClass {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println(rightNow.MONTH);
        System.out.println(rightNow.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        System.out.println(rightNow.YEAR);
        System.out.println(rightNow.getTime());
    }
}

And the output for the same is:

2
5
1
Tue Jan 22 10:31:44 GMT+05:30 2013

Answer 1

    System.out.println(rightNow.MONTH);
    System.out.println(rightNow.DAY_OF_MONTH);
    System.out.println(rightNow.YEAR);
    System.out.println(rightNow.getTime());

You are printing Calendar constant values.

If you want values, you need to do get....

Example:

    System.out.println(rightNow.get(Calendar.MONTH));

Read Calendar javadoc for more information.