Why does setting date with calendar give me the wrong date

Question

I am setting the date to 2013-01-01 00:00:00, but the date comes out as Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT+01:00 2013

Why?

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Answer 1

1 means Feburary. 0 is January. Months are indexed starting from 0. It's always better to use mnemonics: Calendar.JANUARY