Question

I have this CalendarView below

and if i click that day which is the Date today it will popup a dialog.. but this Calendar wont popup if u clicked a date before the CurrentDate it will just say u can’t add event before the current day/time.. and is running well if i click any day after the date today, but when i click the date today i will say a message just like when i click the date before it…

Here is my Code for comparing dates

long currentTime;
Date curr = new Date();
currentTime = curr.getTime();
if(cw.getDate() >= currentTime || formatDate(cw.getDate()) == formatDate(currentTime))
{
            Dialog d = new Dialog(ScheduleActivity.this);
            //some code for setting up the dialog
            d.show();

}
else
{
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(ScheduleActivity.this, Long.toString(cw.getDate())+" || "+Long.toString(currentTime),10000);
        toast.show();

        Log.d("timecheck", formatDate(cw.getDate())+" || "+ formatDate(currentTime));
}

I just used that formatDate with a Format of MM/dd/yyyy just to compare the two dates cuz comparing the time stamp alone still does not work (using “>=” )

Btw the toast are changed so i can see what values are being compared… in Milliseconds they are defferent really but when i format it to MM/dd/yy supposed to be it will see it as the same… but it wont go through the if part it’ll go to the else part.. i Logged the formattedDate in the logcat, logcat below..

Logcat Logs

Answer 1

You will need to use equals instead of == to compare the strings returned from formatDate:

if(cw.getDate() >= currentTime || formatDate(cw.getDate()).equals(formatDate(currentTime)))