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Asked: 2026-06-18T05:00:41+00:00

I need to compare two GregorianCalendar objects within an android application. I tried: myCalendar.compareTo(otherCalendar)

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I need to compare two GregorianCalendar objects within an android application. I tried: 

myCalendar.compareTo(otherCalendar)

myCalendar.getTimeInMillis() > otherCalendar.getTimeMillis()

In the emulator, running under ubuntu 64bit, both works fine. I tried then on a samsung galaxy s2 device with no luck. Comparison on real device is inverted, the bigger results smaller and viceversa. Printing the value on both systems with:

Long.toString(myCalendar.getTimeMillis())

I found out that a value of 1359716008000 in the emulator (I think this is the correct one) corresponds to -636369904720 in the actual device.
Any help would be really appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    just for posterity, the problem was the GregorianCalendar value itself, I assigned the value with

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss");
myCalendar.setTime(sdf.parse(myStringDate));

    It just needed a

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss",Locale.US)

    as said here, the default locale of emulator (maybe US) was not the same of device (italian) so I think it was misparsing the day of the week in letters (“EEE”)

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