DatePicker shows wrong value of month

Question

I have a problem in DatePicker in android when I use getMonth() method then it will return a wrong value.

For example:

DatePicker datepicker=new DatePicker();  int day=date.getDayOfMonth(); int month=date.getMonth(); int year=date.getYear();  t.setText(""+day+" / "+month+" / "+year); 

If I will select aug 06 1987 then it will return 6/7/1987

I think it is an error, if not tell me the reason please.

Answer 1

As described in the Android SDK, months are indexed starting at 0. This means August is month 8, or index 7, thus giving you the correct result.

It is a simple matter of adding 1 to the index returned by the API to get the traditional one-indexed month.

Although this behavior may seem strange, it is consistent with the java.util.Calendar class (although it is not consistent with joda.time.DateTime).