java.util.Date and getYear()

Question

I am having the following problem in Java (I see some people are having a similar problem in JavaScript but I'm using Java)

System.out.println(new Date().getYear()); System.out.println(new GregorianCalendar().getTime().getYear()); System.out.println(this.sale.getSaleDate().getYear()); System.out.println(this.sale.getSaleDate().getMonth()); System.out.println(this.sale.getSaleDate().getDate()); 

returns

I/System.out( 4274): 112 I/System.out( 4274): 112 I/System.out( 4274): 112 I/System.out( 4274): 1 I/System.out( 4274): 11 

I don't understand the 112 bit which I thought would have been 2012. What's going on? Is the java.util.Date class unusable? I am storing this as a field in several of my classes to store a date and time. What should I do?

Answer 1

In addition to all the comments, I thought I might add some code on how to use java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar and java.util.GregorianCalendar according to the javadoc.

//Initialize your Date however you like it. Date date = new Date(); Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(); calendar.setTime(date); int year = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR); //Add one to month {0 - 11} int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1; int day = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);