Question

How can I determine if the current time is between two other time objects?

For example: current: 15:23, startTime: 22:00, endTime: 06:00. So the current time is not between this two other times, but this “23:47” is.

*I don’t care about the date only the time

I tried to do it like this:

Time startTime = getStartTime();
Time endTime = getEndTime();

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
Time now = new Time(c.getTimeInMillis());

if (now.before(endTime) && now.after(startTime)) {
    return true;
}

return false;

but it dosen’t work well. their aren’t any error but it just dosen’t work.

To be more precise the problem is that 15:35.after(22:00) return true… and I don’t know why.
I think that the problem is something with the dates but I don’t know what

Answer 1

I found a solution:

    Time startTime = getStartTime();
    Time endTime = getEndTime();

    Calendar startCalendarTime = Calendar.getInstance();
    startCalendarTime.set(Calendar.YEAR, Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, startTime.getHours(), startTime.getMinutes(), 0);

    Calendar endCalendarTime = Calendar.getInstance();
    endCalendarTime.set(Calendar.YEAR, Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, endTime.getHours(), endTime.getMinutes(), 0);

    Calendar midnightTime = Calendar.getInstance();
    midnightTime.set(Calendar.YEAR, Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 23, 59, 0);

    Calendar nowCalendarTime = Calendar.getInstance();
    nowCalendarTime.set(Calendar.YEAR, Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

    if (startCalendarTime.after(endCalendarTime)) {

        if (nowCalendarTime.after(midnightTime)) {
            startCalendarTime.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, -1);
        } else {
            endCalendarTime.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1);
        }

    }
    int hours = nowCalendarTime.getTime().getHours();
    int minutes = nowCalendarTime.getTime().getMinutes();
    nowCalendarTime.set(Calendar.YEAR, Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, hours, minutes, 0);

    if (nowCalendarTime.after(startCalendarTime) && nowCalendarTime.before(endCalendarTime)) {
        return true;
    }

    return false;