Question

I have a problem with Date instance. I did the following:

Date startDate = new Date(); //this is from database value
Date todayDate = new Date(); //this is created locally

Now when am trying to compare them, the only issue is that the Date instance will have time, so when I check if they are equal it probably wouldn’t give the same thing I expect, but rather less or more. I tested the following:

    System.out.println(rsv.startDate);
    System.out.println("Today date:"+todayDate);
    if(rsv.startDate.equals(todayDate)){
        System.out.println("Equal!");
    }else if(rsv.startDate.after(todayDate)){
        System.out.println("After!!");
    }else{
        System.out.println("Before!!!!");
    }

and although both are 5th feb but it shows output of Before instead of equal. How can I remedy this? I know about SimpleDateFormat but that would change the date to strings.

Thanks,

Answer 1

For Date operation you can use Joda utility. Following snippet code shows compare two date :

DateTime one = new DateTime(original-Date-1);
DateTime two = new DateTime(original-Date-2);

LocalDate oneDate = one.toLocalDate();
LocalDate twoDate = two.toLocalDate();

return oneDate.compareTo(twoDate);

You can see: http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/index.html