Creating java date object from year,month,day

Question

int day = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter(\"day\"));  // 25
int month = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter(\"month\")); // 12
int year = Integer.parseInt(re         


        

Answer 1

That's my favorite way prior to Java 8:

Date date = new GregorianCalendar(year, month - 1, day).getTime();

I'd say this is a cleaner approach than:

calendar.set(year, month - 1, day, 0, 0);