Parsing zero-based month strings in java

Question

I am trying to parse a String that looks like:

2015, 2, 31, 17, 0, 1

so i figured I'll use

SimpleDateFormat("yyyy, MM, dd, hh, mm, ss")

but it assumed the months are 1-based. In this case the month (2) is March. How can i tell SimpleDateFormat or any other class to parse with zero-based months?

Answer 1

Use Calendar:

String[] yourString = "2015, 2, 31, 17, 0, 1".split(",");

Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
c.set(Calendar.YEAR, Integer.valueOf(yourString[0]));
c.set(Calendar.MONTH, Integer.valueOf(yourString[1]));
c.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, Integer.valueOf(yourString[2]));
c.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, Integer.valueOf(yourString[3]));
c.set(Calendar.MINUTE, Integer.valueOf(yourString[4]));
c.set(Calendar.SECOND, Integer.valueOf(yourString[5]));