What's the difference between adding DAY_OF_MONTH or DAY_OF_YEAR to a Calendar object?

Question

I want to increase a certain date by 1 day. I create a Calendar object like:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2012);
cal.set(Cal         


        

Answer 1

Use Calendar.DATE for your purposes. In your case these three constants are synonyms.