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copied!<p>Just to give a bit more background:</p> <p>Both <code>new GregorianCalendar()</code> and <code>Calendar.getInstance()</code> will correctly give a calendar initialized at the current date and time.</p> <p><code>MONTH</code> and <code>YEAR</code> are <em>constants</em> within the <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>Calendar</code></a> class. You should <em>not</em> use them "via" a reference which makes it look like they're part of the state of an object. It's an unfortunate part of the design of the <code>Calendar</code> class that to access the values of different fields, you need to call <code>get</code> with a field number, specified as one of those constants, as shown in other answers:</p> <pre><code>Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(); int year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR); int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH); </code></pre> <p>Note that the month numbers are 0-based, so at the time of this writing (in April) the month number will be 3.</p> <p>It's an unfortunate part of the design of the Java language that you <em>can</em> reference static members (such as constants) via expressions of that type, rather than <em>only</em> through the type name.</p> <p>My recommendations:</p> <ul> <li>If your IDE allows it (as Eclipse does), make expressions such as <code>c.YEAR</code> give a compile-time error - you'll end up with much clearer code if you always use <code>Calendar.YEAR</code>.</li> <li>Where possible, use <a href="http://www.joda.org/joda-time/" rel="noreferrer">Joda Time</a> - a much better date/time library for Java. Admittedly on Android you may be a bit space-constrained, but if your app does a lot of date/time manipulation, it would save you a lot of headaches.</li> </ul>

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