Question

I have to compare two dates where first date is in Calendar format and other in string(DD-MMM-yyyy) format. So I want to convert one of the Calendar dates into String and use compareTo method.

I have tried using :

SimpleDateFormat formatter=new SimpleDateFormat("DD-MMM-yyyy");  
String currentDate=formatter.format(view.getSelectedDay());    

Answer 1

Assuming view.getSelectedDay() returns a Calendar, you may simply want:

String currentDate = formatter.format(view.getSelectedDay().getTime());

(So that you have a Date reference to pass in to format.)

If that’s not the problem, please give more information. I suspect you also want “dd” instead of “DD” by the way. “DD” is the day of year whereas “dd” is the day of month, as per the SimpleDateFormat documentation.