Error getting month while using Calendar object

Question

I'm using Calendar API to manipulate date. Here is snippet of code i'm trying.

Date date=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy").parse("05/10/2013");
              Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
              cal.setTime(date);
              int month=cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);

Here i should get month as 9(Oct) but its returning 0(Jan).Even if I change date it still returns 0(Jan). Why this is happening? Please help me.

Answer 1

use MM instead of mm small m gives Minute in hour and to get Month use capital M

Date date=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").parse("05/10/2013");
Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
int month=cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
System.out.println("" + month);

Output:

9

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