Creating a Gregorian Calendar using a Date object gives date - 1

[prachi_goliwadekar]

I have a Date object
Date dt = rs.getDate("passwordExpiryDate"); // This returns me date as 10 May 2008
now I want to check if today is my password expiry date -
TimeZone TIME_ZONE = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-0");
Calendar calendarExp =new GregorianCalendar(TIME_ZONE); // This gives me todays date i.e. 8 May 2008
calendarExp.setTime(dt);
When I set dt to the calendar it changes the date to 7 May 2008.

Can any onw pls help me..

Thanks,
Prachi

[hardwired]

Code:

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("HHmm dd MMM yyyy");
        TimeZone TIME_ZONE = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-0");
        System.out.println("TIME_ZONE = " + TIME_ZONE.getID());
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println("local TZ = " + calendar.getTimeZone().getID());
        calendar.set(2008, 04, 10, 24, 00);  // midnight gmt
        Date expDate = calendar.getTime();
        System.out.printf("expDate    = %s%n", df.format(expDate));

        Calendar gmtCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.setTimeZone(TIME_ZONE);
        gmtCalendar.setTime(expDate);
        Date gmtExpDate = gmtCalendar.getTime();
        System.out.printf("gmtExpDate = %s%n", df.format(gmtExpDate));

        Calendar calendarExp = new GregorianCalendar(TIME_ZONE);
        calendarExp.setTime(expDate);
        System.out.printf("calExpDate = %s%n", df.format(calendarExp.getTime()));
    }
}