Name: joT67522 Date: 11/25/97


Regarding
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This question regards the java.util.GreogorianCalendar and associated
Calendar fields not being set. I am using JDK 1.1.3.

Explantion
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If I declare an object as such:

        GregorianCalendar a = new GregorianCalendar();

There is no problem in me then doing such things as

        a.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

because all of the fields get set.



However, if I declare an object as such:

  GregorianCalendar a = new GregorianCalendar(97,Calendar.NOVEMBER, 13);

None of the fields except Calendar.YEAR, Calendar.MONTH, and
Calendar.YEAR get set. In other words, if I say,

        a.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

I get a return value of 0.


In summary
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If I declare a GregorianCalendar object using the default constructor,
all Calendar fields get set automatically...if I declare a
GregorianCalendar object using the other constructors (e.g. public
GregorianCalendar(int year, int month, int date), only those fields
within the constructor get set.

Question
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Why is this? Is this a bug? What is the workaround to get, let's say the
DAY_OF_WEEK, when using one of the non-default constructors?


Thanks
Joel Marcey
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