difference between Calender on windows and linux

[sjakiePP]

Hi,

On a Win 2000 I use following to determine todays date:

Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance();
int year = rightNow.get(rightNow.YEAR);
int month = rightNow.get(rightNow.MONTH);
int day = rightNow.get(rightNow.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int hour = rightNow.get(rightNow.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minute = rightNow.get(rightNow.MINUTE);
String lDate = "" + year + "-" + month + "-" + day + " - " + hour + ":" + minute;

When I use this on a linux machine The date is not correct. It says it is 2004-8-7. How can I fix this?

thanks in advance
Sjakie

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[sedj]

I've tried this on Win32 (XP) and also linux (red hat 9) and there is no difference (and there should be none). It must be something you are doing ...

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[sjakiePP]

I wish I knew what. The system date of the machines used, is correct. Is it so that months in calender start at 0? Like january = 0, february = 1, and so on.

I solved it with following:

SimpleDateFormat lSdf = new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy-MM-dd - hh:mm");
Date currentDate = new Date();
String dateString = lSdf.format(currentDate);

This works the same.

Thanks.

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[stefanwagner]

Yes - months start with 0.
It's pretty incosistent, because days start with 1, if I remember correctly.

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