.DAY_OF_WEEK always returns 7

[shurgs]

Hi there, I'm setting a calendar to a date that's pulled from an array of results of a MySQL query stored in events[y][1].

GregorianCalendar eventdatecal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"),Locale.UK);
          Date eventdatesimple = simpledateform.parse(events[y][1]);
          eventdatecal.setTime(eventdatesimple);
              System.out.println(eventdatecal); /*This returns 0->6, Sun->Sat for .DAY_OF_WEEK*/
          int xindex = eventdatecal.DAY_OF_WEEK;
              System.out.println(xindex);/*But this always returns 7 :@*/

The problem is this: If I add in System.out.println(eventdatecal); I can see that the DAY_OF_WEEK variable changes depending what date I get from events[y][1] and it's correct. But as soon a I try and pass it into xindex and System.out.println(xindex); it returns 7, every time. Am I doing something really silly or am I right in thinking this makes no sense?

[wsaryada]

Hi,

What you currently did is assigning the value of a constant field Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK to the xindex variable. Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK is an integer field that have a value 7. So you'll always get 7 printed out as the output.

From your requirement your code should be:

int xindex = eventdatecal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

[shurgs]

Silly me :o. Thanks!