Question: I'm passing "Jan", "Feb" etc... as integers to the database I need to be passing 1-12 for the corresponding months, but I'm getting 0-11 from Calendar

This is how Im doing it, please help me tweak this to get the months as 1-12 instead as 0-11

```
//Get month as an integer.
Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(stringMonth);
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
System.out.println("month ==" + month);

```

Answer: 
```
  int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;

```

Calendar's month is 0-indexed (Jan = 0). As odd as the above code seems, it is commonly seen in Java because of the rather odd indexing of months in Calendar.

This post has a discussion of this topic: [Why is January month 0 in Java Calendar](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/344380/why-is-january-month-0-in-java-calendar)
Either change:

```
int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;

```

or

```
System.out.println("month ==" + (month) + 1) ;

```

(but don't do them both!)

This adds an "offset" of 1 to your `month`'s represented by `int`, thus shifting it from 0-11 to 1-12 =)