Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR is returning a wrong value?

Question

I tried getting week of the year through below code but it always returns "3", I even set the timezone to GMT but still returning the same value("3"). Please help me out over here

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-mm-yyyy");
Date date = formatter.parse("14-10-2014")
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(date);
System.out.println(calendar.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR));

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-31/tr35-dates.html#Date_Format_Patterns — Hot Licks, Oct 14 '14 at 12:10

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '14 at 12:06

You're setting the minutes not the month. It sounds like it's parsing this as 2014-01-14T00:10:00, and that January 14th 2014 is in the third week. You want MM for months, not mm.

(I'd also encourage you to use yyyy-MM-dd if you get a chance to change the format entirely - that's ISO-8601 compliant...)

Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR is returning a wrong value?

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