java calendar returns wrong hour_of_day

Question

I have the following code:

Calendar cal= Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, 1994);   
cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, 03);
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,1);
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);

After running it I expect:

cal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);

to return 0, but it returns 1.

If I use a different year/month, it works fine. Also, setting another hour works fine, it happens only for 0.

Is there something special about April 1994? What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance.

Gives 0 as expected to me: http://ideone.com/85WUH0 – Rahul Tripathi Jun 15 '16 at 07:08 — Rahul Tripathi, Jun 15 '16 at 07:08
weird... maybe a TimeZone issue? Thanks for checking – sgrossman Jun 15 '16 at 07:10 — sgrossman, Jun 15 '16 at 07:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 15 '16 at 07:58

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I was using Israel TZ and due to DST transition the hour 0 on April 1st '94 does not exist.

answered Jun 15 '16 at 07:58

sgrossman

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