对我来说，没有人比mindpro.com更能解释这一点:

Gotchas java.util.GregorianCalendar has far fewer bugs and gotchas than the old java.util.Date class but it is still no picnic. Had there been programmers when Daylight Saving Time was first proposed, they would have vetoed it as insane and intractable. With daylight saving, there is a fundamental ambiguity. In the fall when you set your clocks back one hour at 2 AM there are two different instants in time both called 1:30 AM local time. You can tell them apart only if you record whether you intended daylight saving or standard time with the reading. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell GregorianCalendar which you intended. You must resort to telling it the local time with the dummy UTC TimeZone to avoid the ambiguity. Programmers usually close their eyes to this problem and just hope nobody does anything during this hour. Millennium bug. The bugs are still not out of the Calendar classes. Even in JDK (Java Development Kit) 1.3 there is a 2001 bug. Consider the following code: GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar(); gc.setLenient( false ); /* Bug only manifests if lenient set false */ gc.set( 2001, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0 ); int year = gc.get ( Calendar.YEAR ); /* throws exception */ The bug disappears at 7AM on 2001/01/01 for MST. GregorianCalendar is controlled by a giant of pile of untyped int magic constants. This technique totally destroys any hope of compile-time error checking. For example to get the month you use GregorianCalendar. get(Calendar.MONTH)); GregorianCalendar has the raw GregorianCalendar.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET) and the daylight savings GregorianCalendar. get( Calendar. DST_OFFSET), but no way to get the actual time zone offset being used. You must get these two separately and add them together. GregorianCalendar.set( year, month, day, hour, minute) does not set the seconds to 0. DateFormat and GregorianCalendar do not mesh properly. You must specify the Calendar twice, once indirectly as a Date. If the user has not configured his time zone correctly it will default quietly to either PST or GMT. In GregorianCalendar, Months are numbered starting at January=0, rather than 1 as everyone else on the planet does. Yet days start at 1 as do days of the week with Sunday=1, Monday=2,… Saturday=7. Yet DateFormat. parse behaves in the traditional way with January=1.

因为语言写作比看起来要难得多，特别是处理时间比大多数人想象的要难得多。关于这个问题的一小部分(在现实中，不是Java)，请参阅YouTube视频“时间和时区的问题-计算机爱好者”，网址是https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY。如果你在困惑中笑掉了头，不要感到惊讶。

就我个人而言，我认为Java日历API的奇特之处表明，我需要摆脱以格里高利为中心的思维方式，并尝试在这方面更加不可知论地编程。具体来说，我再次学会了避免对月份之类的常量进行硬编码。

下面哪个选项更可能是正确的?

if (date.getMonth() == 3) out.print("March");

if (date.getMonth() == Calendar.MARCH) out.print("March");

这说明了Joda Time让我有点恼火的一件事——它可能会鼓励程序员从硬编码常数的角度思考问题。(不过只有一点点。Joda并不是在强迫程序员糟糕地编程。)

真正的原因

You would think that when we deprecated most of Date and added the new Calendar class, we would have fixed Date's biggest annoyance: the fact that January is month 0. We certainly should have, but unfortunately we didn't. We were afraid that programmers would be confused if Date used zero-based months and Calendar used one-based months. And a few programmers probably would have been. But in hindsight, the fact that Calendar is still zero-based has caused an enormous amount of confusion, and it was probably the biggest single mistake in the Java international API's.

引用自Laura Werner的Java国际日历，链接在底部。

更好的选择:java.time

这可能只是重复其他人所说的，抛弃旧的和设计糟糕的Calendar类，使用java。时间，现代Java日期和时间API。从1月的1到12月的12，月份的编号始终是合理的。

如果您从尚未升级到java的遗留API中获取Calendar。时，要做的第一件事是转换为现代的ZonedDateTime。根据你的需要，你可以从那里做进一步的转换。在大多数情况下，您获得的Calendar对象实际上总是GregorianCalendar子类的一个实例(因为Calendar类本身是抽象的)。demonstreate:

    Calendar oldfashionedCalendarObject = Calendar.getInstance();
    ZonedDateTime zdt
            = ((GregorianCalendar) oldfashionedCalendarObject).toZonedDateTime();
    
    System.out.println(zdt);
    System.out.format("Month is %d or %s%n", zdt.getMonthValue(), zdt.getMonth());

当我刚刚在我的时区运行时输出:

2021 - 03 - 17 - t23:18:47.761 + 01:00[欧洲/哥本哈根] 月是3号或MARCH

链接

Laura Werner编写的Java国际日历 Oracle教程:Date Time解释如何使用java.time。

我想说是懒惰。数组从0开始(每个人都知道);一年中的月份是一个数组，这让我相信Sun的一些工程师只是懒得在Java代码中加入这个小细节。

除了DannySmurf关于懒惰的回答之外，我还要补充一句，这是为了鼓励您使用常量，例如Calendar.JANUARY。