In Calendar add subtract in java

Question

I trying to subtract 60 days from calender . sample code

   try {


        cal.set(2014,02,12);  //year,month,date
        cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -60);

        System.out.println("Year = " + cal.get(Calendar.YEAR));
        System.out.println("Month = " + (cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)));
        System.out.println("Day = " + cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
    } 
    catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

The output is

Year = 2014
Month = 0
Day = 11

if the date is

cal.set(2014,01,12);  //year,month,date

output is fine :

Year = 2013
Month = 11
Day = 14

How to fix this issue ?

Answer 1

There is nothing wrong you are getting the January month, as months start from 0

month - the value used to set the MONTH calendar field. Month value is 0-based. eg, 0 for January.

So what you are getting is 11-January-2014

EDIT:-

Based on the comments below are the months representation:

• January: 0
• February: 1
• March: 2
• April: 3
• May: 4
• June: 5
• July: 6
• August: 7
• September: 8
• October: 9
• November: 10
• December: 11

So your date 2014, 02 ,12 actually represents 12- March -2014 and when you are deleting 60 days from it then it will take you to January, and so the year will not change.