java.util.Date and getYear()

Question

I am having the following problem in Java (I see some people are having a similar problem in JavaScript but I\'m using Java)

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Answer 1

Yup, this is in fact what's happening. See also the Javadoc:

Returns:
   the year represented by this date, minus 1900.

The getYear method is deprecated for this reason. So, don't use it.

Note also that getMonth returns a number between 0 and 11. Therefore, this.sale.getSaleDate().getMonth() returns 1 for February, instead of 2. While java.util.Calendar doesn't add 1900 to all years, it does suffer from the off-by-one-month problem.

You're much better off using JodaTime.