Calendar Month Question

[k4ghg]

Hi - I am having a problem trying to use the calendar class. I need the user to select a month (i.e., August) and have that converted to an integer (i.e., 8) that is used in various classes. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks Ronnie

 

[sedj]

The documentation is quite clear about this, and even has an example of how to do it !

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/GregorianCalendar.html

Anyway ...

	 Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
	 java.util.Date now = new java.util.Date();
	 calendar.setTime(now);
         int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);
	 System.out.println(month);

Remember that months go from 0 to 11 - So December is '11', August is '7' - so you will need to add an int on - eg :

int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) +1;


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[k4ghg]

Thanks, but, I seem to be missing something. Its my understanding that:

int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) +1;

means that the intger month is equal to the current system previous month, because Java uses 0 for January we add a one for the current month. What I need is for the user to select a month from a combo box and have that month converted to an integer.

Thanks for your help...Ronnie

 

[sedj]

Not quite following your problem here ... construct a Calender object, and then call the method I showed you above ... this will "convert" your date's month to an integer. Again ... its all in the documentation. Perhaps you should try reading it ?

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[k4ghg]

Thanks...