Thank you, I was missing get method to read the object field. It works fine now.....
-----Original Message----- From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jay H. Lang Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 6:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Date calculation Without understanding what you are really trying to do, the myCal.add(meCal.DATE, 5) statement adds 5 to DAY_OF_MONTH field. Also the MONTH field seems to contain values from 0-11. Try this: Calendar myCal = Calendar.getInstance(); System.out.println(myCal.get(myCal.DAY_OF_MONTH)); myCal.add(myCal.DATE, 5); System.out.println(myCal.get(myCal.DAY_OF_MONTH)); See Ya. -- Jay H. Lang Chief Technologist Distributed Computing Professionals Inc. IBM Certified Specialist - MQSeries 303 277-1873 - Office 303 807-9700 - Cell Alireza Nahavandi wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to get the date of 5 days later. According to Sun Java document, the > following code should work. But still the result is today. > Am I missing anything? > > Calendar myCal = Calendar.getInstance(); > myCal.add(myCal.DATE, 5); > > System.out.println ( myCal.DATE ); > > Thank you. > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
