Selecting one MySQL date with month reduced by one
If there is no workaround then, bad practice as it may be, what you have is functional. I found this post on SO that may allow you to convert the column's date data type to the 0-11 format. Hope this helps. 

EDIT

Removed bad idea. If you really wish to see it just look at the edit history, but it is not a good idea. I'm going back to my original answer.