Question

In my app you set the date/time with date/timePickers.

 SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
 Date datahora;
 datahora = (Date) formatter.parse(data);

I need to compare the time I set with the actual time of my phone. So I have tried this:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date datahora;
String datatmp = formatter.format(new Date(0));
 try {
    datahora = (Date) formatter.parse(data);
    if(datahora <= datatmp)

but I do know its wrong because it says it cant check date > string but I can’t get to know how to check the actual time.

EDIT

LogCat

    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261): java.lang.IllegalStateException: get field slot from row 0 col -1 failed
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at android.database.CursorWindow.getString_native(Native Method)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at android.database.CursorWindow.getString(CursorWindow.java:329)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at android.database.AbstractWindowedCursor.getString(AbstractWindowedCursor.java:49)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at com.example.mensagem.Mensagenssalvas$1.onItemClick(Mensagenssalvas.java:59)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at android.widget.AdapterView.performItemClick(AdapterView.java:284)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at android.widget.ListView.performItemClick(ListView.java:3382)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at android.widget.AbsListView$PerformClick.run(AbsListView.java:1696)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at         android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
    10-08 20:14:07.453: E/AndroidRuntime(261):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

To get the current date/time you just create a new Date object.

To compare dates you use Date.compareTo():

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date now = new Date();
int difference = now.compareTo(formatter.parse(data));

According to the docs, difference will be:

the value 0 if the argument Date is equal to this Date; a value less
than 0 if this Date is before the Date argument; and a value greater
than 0 if this Date is after the Date argument.

if (difference == 0) {
    // the dates are equal
}
else if (difference < 0) {
    // the date is before now
}
else {
    // the date is after now
}