Calendar.MONTH gives wrong value

Question

I'm trying to get the actual month from the Calendar using the following:

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();          
String time = String.valueOf(c.get(Calendar.MONTH));

According the system settings "Settings --> Date & Time" actual month is 10 while get(Calendar.MONTH) returns 09.

Answer 1

Keep in mind that months values start from 0, so October is actually month number 9.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#MONTH

Answer 2

Calendar.MONTH returns month which is zero based that is why it is giving 1 less than actual month Add 1 to get correct value

String time = String.valueOf(c.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1);

Answer 3

Calendar.MONTH

returns

0 for 1st month (jan)
1 for 2nd month (feb)
.
.
11 for 12th month (dec)

Docs

So change your code to

String time = String.valueOf(c.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1);// added 1