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1. How to compare two Dates without the time portion?    stackoverflow.com

I would like to have a compareTo method that ignores the time portion of a java.util.Date. I guess there are a number of ways to solve this. What's the simplest way? ...

2. EJBQL date comparison    stackoverflow.com

In EJBQL how can compare two date values; suppose "Select e from Employee e where e.start_date > :start_date" If I set query parameter with setParameter("start_date", new Date()); An Exception occurs on running.. I wait for ...

3. check date for variable value    stackoverflow.com

I have a variable in my Java class that needs to be set based on whether today is before or after 7/1. If today is before 7/1 then we are ...

4. Compare dates in java    stackoverflow.com

How to compare dates in between in java? Example: date1 is 22-02-2010
date2 is 07-04-2010 today
date3 is 25-12-2010 date3 is always greater than date1 and date2 is always today. ...

5. Dates comparisons in java    stackoverflow.com

I would like to compare a date to the current date. could you please tell me how to do that in java.

6. Date Comparison using Java    stackoverflow.com

I have two dates:

  1. toDate (user input in MM/dd/yyyy format)
  2. currentDate (obtained by new Date())
I need to compare the currentDate with toDate. I have to display a report only when the toDate ...

7. Compare two dates in Java    stackoverflow.com

I need to compare two dates in java. I am using the code like this:

Date questionDate = question.getStartDate();
Date today = new Date();

if(today.equals(questionDate)){
    System.out.println("Both are equals");
}
But this is not ...

8. java date time compare two    stackoverflow.com

What would be the best way to compare two date in java? Right now i have array of time like 10.00, 12.00, 2.00, 4.00 How can we find out which time to come up ...

9. Java dates period compare    stackoverflow.com

i would like to create a function in java that would do the following:

  1. Get a list of Objects in a vector with fields startDate, endDate
  2. Get a second list of ...





10. Method to compare dates doesn't seem to work -- at all    stackoverflow.com

public void display(Date date) {
        for (int i = 0; i < this.position; i++) {
          ...

11. Java Timestamp Comparison    stackoverflow.com

I have a Timestamp being passed from an external source to my application in the 2011-01-23-12.31.45 format. I need to compare it to the current system timestamp an make sure ...

12. Comparing date strings using joda time library    stackoverflow.com

I have two date strings say , "2011-04-29" and "2011-01-28" , and i want to compare them using Joda Time. Is there a way to do that ?. An example would ...

13. Comparing Dates and Using Calander class and Date class In Java    stackoverflow.com

I'd love your help understanding the following: Assume that I have a Value of type date

Date start;
How can I chack whether the current date is a week or more since the date ...

14. Comparing Dates on Java    stackoverflow.com

could everyone help me with if statement below so that it will be true when the date in the GregorianCalendar instance myGC1 is not later than the date of the GregorianCalendar ...

15. comparing Gregorian calendar date values    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to set up part of a program that allows a person to view transactions of an account based on the date of the transaction. The user enters the ...

16. How to compare two Joda time Periods    stackoverflow.com

It does not seem straighforward. I am trying this:

@Override
public int compare(Period o1, Period o2) {
    return o1.toStandardDays().getDays() > o2.toStandardDays().getDays() ? -1 : (o1.toStandardDays().getDays() == o2.toStandardDays().getDays() ? 0 : 1);
}
But ...





17. Compare a dateRange with other continous dates in another list to get adjacent ranges relative to the list compared    stackoverflow.com

e.g. There is a date range from Feb9 thru May 19 in an interval. There is another list of effective dates in a Map for key values like as of this ...

18. Compare disparate Date formats, which are stored as Strings    stackoverflow.com

I have two disparate date formats presented in my application as strings. Here are the formats:

  1. 07/01/2011
  2. 2011-07-01
I'm looking for the most efficient way to assert their equality.

19. How to Compare Dates and Times?    stackoverflow.com

How can I compare whether two datetimes are the same or at least overlap? For example, let's say we have the following two sets of start and stop times:

Start time: ...

20. Comparing only the time component of Date    stackoverflow.com

Consider the following code to only determine if the time component of one Date object is before the time component of another Date object:

private boolean validStartStopTime( Date start, Date stop ) ...

21. Compare right-unbounded time intervals with joda-lib    stackoverflow.com

Is it possible to determine wether two rigth-unbounded intervals (intervals with one boundary at infinity) overlap or not? I've tried this (and other similar variations):

Instant now = new Instant(new Date().getTime());
Interval i2 = ...

22. Compare only the time portion of two dates, ignoring the date part    stackoverflow.com

What's a good method to, given two Date objects, compare the difference between their time portion only, completely ignoring Year, Month and Day? It's quite the opposite of this question. UPDATE: Here's ...

23. Compare date without time    stackoverflow.com

Possible Duplicate:
How to compare two Dates without the time portion?
How to compare date without time in java ?
Date currentDate = new Date();// get current ...

24. Compare two Timestamp in java    stackoverflow.com

How can I compare if mytime is between fromtime and totime:

Timestamp fromtime;
Timestamp totime;

Timestamp mytime;

25. Java Compare dates to check if in range    stackoverflow.com

ok not as simple as title may make it sound. I tried this in a very primal way with c# and it worked, but I have a feeling a better job ...

26. compare dates    coderanch.com

27. comparing dates in SELECT statment    coderanch.com

hi all,i am shumaiza, i am using servlets,and database access, i have one date column named ticket_time in a table. now i want to use this date column in my select statment's where clause in my class, but it gives error: "java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Data type mismatch in criteria expression " In table values of ticket_time column are in ...

28. comparing timestamp object to null    coderanch.com

29. Comparing dates    coderanch.com

OK, your dates are Strings. If the format of your dates is YYYYMMDD then you can just compare them with < and >. If not then you need to look at the java.util.Calendar class. The methods you will need are getInstance(), set() and before() or after(). If your dates are formatted like DD/MM/YYYY or something similar you'll want to use String.split() ...

30. comparing two dates    coderanch.com

in first place thanks for your help! i'm doing a "home" app and now i understand that "date" will be input manually, not using new Date(). so i guess i can turn this around like this: 1. offer the user 3 fields: year, month, day. 2. then i translate them, (when necessary), and create a Calendar like: Calendar um = new ...

31. Code for date comparison    coderanch.com

Hi I have a field in the database(type varchar)...I am storing... the date time in this field. I wish to compare two dates in this column in my java code.. how can i do it...It wud be helpful if i can get some code. The datetime format is "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss". Thanks in advance, A Kumar.

32. Date Comparison    coderanch.com

Hi, What i want to be able to do is take a given date and see if it is within 48hours (in to the future) of the current date. The date I have only has accuracy to the day. The only thing I've tried so far is to create both as GregorianCalendar instances and call getTimeInMillis() on them and make sure ...

33. comparing date    coderanch.com

Hi i have to write a function which will build a SQL for a certain range of dates. But i am unable to compare the date My code is ------------------------ public String loopDate(String d1,String d2) throws ParseException {System.out.println(d1); String dql = "select"; java.util.Date tdate ; java.util.Date fdate; tdate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy").parse(d1); fdate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy").parse(d2); //tdate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse(d1); String strOutDt ...

34. is that any utility class that help compare date within start and end date ?    coderanch.com

jeff, i facing more on the problem of algorithm that check the date range below is my try code : public static boolean compareBtwDate(String compareDt, String startDt, String endDt, String dateFormat) { boolean isWorkDate = false; if(StringUtils.isBlank(compareDt) || StringUtils.isBlank(startDt) || StringUtils.isBlank(endDt)) { isWorkDate = false; } SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat); sdf.setLenient(true); try { Date compareObjDt = sdf.parse(compareDt); Date startObjDt = ...

35. Compare Date.    coderanch.com

If you have two Date objects then you can use their before() and after() methods to see if one is before... or after... the other one. If you actually have a strings that represent dates, then use a SimpleDateFormat object and call its parse() method to produce Date objects. Then compare the Date objects.

36. How can I compare adate, that is between two exist date feilds?.    coderanch.com

import java.util.*; public class DateCheck{ public static void main(String args[]){ Calendar stDateRange = Calendar.getInstance(); Calendar endDateRange = Calendar.getInstance(); Calendar btwDateRange = Calendar.getInstance(); stDateRange.set(2006,3,1); endDateRange.set(2006,3,3); btwDateRange.set(2006,3,2); Date stDate = stDateRange.getTime(); Date endDate = endDateRange.getTime(); Date btwDate = btwDateRange.getTime(); if(btwDate.after(stDate) && btwDate.before(endDate)){ System.out.println("Date is in the range "); }else{ System.out.println("Date is not in the range"); } } }

38. Comparing Dates and Timestamps    coderanch.com

I am currently engaged in a debate regarding the validity of comparing java.util.Date and java.sql.Timestamp objects. The Java API for Timestamp specifically limits methods compareTo and equals to the comparison of like objects, i.e. both must be Timestamps. However, it is possible to use the methods after and before inherited from Date to compare a Timestamp to a Date. IMO, doing ...

39. comparing dates    coderanch.com

Hi-- I have a question I want to compare dates in a java servlet one date I'm getting off the a database and the other date I'm using the Gregorian Calendar to go back 48 hours to get the other date. Right now when I get the date off the database I save it in string array and the other I ...

40. Date Comparison    coderanch.com

41. comparison of dates    coderanch.com

Hello all, Thank you for reply ,i want to compare dates means date in a database to current date. i have written a query like this, select * from tablename where date<=? means date till today but this is comparing only days not month and year please tell me how to do. vin

43. Using java.util.Date for comparison    coderanch.com

Hi Friends I am stuck in a problem for which i need help from you. I have written code to convert a date object into a calander object for a functionality in my application. I am getting the output in the following format after conversion Thu May 31 00:00:00 IST 2007 Wed Jun 13 00:00:00 IST 2007 Now inside other method ...

44. comparing dates    coderanch.com

With the after() and before() methods you can compare two Date objects to find out if one represents a date that is after or before the other one. That doesn't have anything to do with formatting (converting a Date to a String) or parsing (converting a String to a Date). [ October 05, 2007: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]

45. Comparing only dates and not timestamp    coderanch.com

Hi, I want to compare two dates neglecting there timestamp, means if two dates point to same 11th Feb then they should be equals (date1.after(date2) and date1.before(date2) both should be false). I want the better way of doing it , currently I am doing it as setting hour,minute,second,millisecond as 0 and AM to both of the times and then comparing it. ...

46. Program for date comparison    coderanch.com

Hi, I have attached the code of date comparison,somebody asked this pgm. Iam unable to post this. In this pgm ,Getting two dates(from and to) input from console storing in string variable.comparing the two date fields. import java.util.*; import java.io.*; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; class dc { public static void main(String ae[])throws IOException { try { BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); ...

47. comparing 2 date objects...very urgent    coderanch.com

48. Comparing dates    coderanch.com

This feels like a dumb question, but browsing the API hasn't produced an answer for me yet. I want to get an integer value for the number of days elapsed since a given date. I can create a new Date() object for today, but I can't find a method that will perform a date-date subtraction cleanly. I could use the DAY_OF_YEAR ...

49. Help needed to compare timestamp    coderanch.com

Hi All, I needed some help on how to compare if a file on the server is modified. I wud like 2 explain what I am looking for. Hope this explains. I have created a server socket n a client socket. Whenever the client connects to the server it downloads some files for the first time. Now if later the clinet ...

50. Comparison between two dates    coderanch.com

51. Comparing dates.....Help.....Please    coderanch.com

52. Date-time comparison    coderanch.com

53. Compare 2 java.util.Dates    coderanch.com

54. compare dates    coderanch.com

I am completely lost with this thing! I have to compare 2 dates and figure out if they're within x amount of hours. I'm testing with 2. I have to set the timezone to the input timezone. I create 2 gregorian dates to whatever the input timezone is. Then I add the hours to the comparison date. My problem is that ...

55. Comparing two dates    coderanch.com

import java.io.PrintStream; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.*; public class comp { public comp() { } public static void main(String args[]) { GregorianCalendar gregoriancalendar = new GregorianCalendar(); Date date = gregoriancalendar.getTime(); //Current Date SimpleDateFormat simpledateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy"); String s = simpledateformat.format(date); System.out.println(s + " - " + date); String args1[] = { "", "JAN", "FEB", "MAR", "APR", "MAY", "JUN", "JUL", ...

56. Date Range Compare:Overlaps    coderanch.com

I didn't see anything in the JavaDoc about DateRange. Do you have such a class around? I think you'll have to do this the hard way: if rangeA start is in rangeB or if rangeA end is in rangeB then overlap is true. What if you made a DateRange class with signatures like this: public DateRange( Date start, Date end ) ...

57. comparing dates    coderanch.com

58. comparing dates in different formats    coderanch.com

59. Comparing Dates    coderanch.com

public int compareTo(Date anotherDate)Compares two Dates for ordering. Parameters: anotherDate - the Date to be compared. Returns: 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.

60. Date Compare    coderanch.com

I need to compare two Dates. In the class that hold them I have this inner-class: ========================================================== public static Comparator DateTimeComparator = new Comparator() { public int compare(Object firstSolution, Object anotherSolution) { ... Date firstDate = firstSolution.getDate(); Date nextDate = anotherSolution.getDate(); String firstTime = firstSolution.getTime(); String nextTime = anotherSolution.getTime(); String a = Utils.parseTime(firstDepartTime); String b = Utils.parseTime(nextDepartTime); String firstHour = a.substring(0,2); ...

61. Comparing two date inputs    coderanch.com

In general, you can compare two objects if the class implements the Comparable interface. Then the class must implement a method called compareTo(). The method compareTo returns negative numbe for less than, zero for equals, and a positive number for greater than. I believe that compareTo() is for the normal ordering and that if you want to use an alternative ordering, ...

62. compare Date    coderanch.com

64. Comparing dates...    coderanch.com

65. Date comparison help    coderanch.com

66. Compare two Dates    coderanch.com

67. What fields does java.util.Date.equals compare?    coderanch.com

As I suggested in that other thread, it could be that the classes of the two objects are different. Objects of two different classes will almost never be equal according to the equals() method of either object. (Disclaimer: I have not looked at that other thread since I posted in it. However I think it's your responsibility to combine the answers ...

68. How to compare two dates    coderanch.com

69. Comparing 2 times excluding the date    coderanch.com

I currently have a Calendar instance, and then also have an hour and minute. I want to see if the time of the calendar instance occurs before the hour and minute. For example Calendar cal = now(); int hour = 18; int minute = 30; if(cal < 1830) System.out.println("It is before 1830"); What would be the best way to do something ...

70. comparing two different dates in java    coderanch.com

hi i have two date, one of type long (retrieved from file.lastModified()) and the other date is a String object. i was trying to figure out exactly how to parse them to the same form and compre them. i need to know which is after the other. i was looking at SimpleDateFormat, DateFormat and Date and yet i still didn't manage ...

71. Comparing Date and Timestamp: unexpected result    coderanch.com

Thank you both for your fast replies. As far as I understand, the method a.before(b) simply compares the difference between a.getTime() and b.getTime(). The method equals is never called on Timestamp. When constructing a Timestamp using a milliseconds argument, there are no nanoseconds. So strictly following Javadoc for new Timestamp(long time) and new Date(long time), which I used in the example, ...

72. compare dates for equality with a few minutes of "leniency"    coderanch.com

Basically I am trying to write something to compare a bunch of recording files with date and time int he file name, to a spreadsheet of calls. I plan to match based on phone number and date/time of call. But the time on the recording and the time in the spreadsheet are bound to be off by up to a few ...

73. Comparing date    dbforums.com

74. Compare two date strings (JAVA)    dbforums.com

What exactly are you trying to pull off here? Simplest comparison is to use the equals() method on the String, but this will only tell you if the Strings contain the same data (iow, if it's the same date or not). If you want more info, use a SimpleDateFormat object and some java.util.Date objects. Using those you can tell which date ...

75. need help with a comparison of 3 dates.    dbforums.com

I have a date class that uses stringTokenizer as one constructor and also a constructor that takes in the day, month and year. My problem is that day, month and year are private to the class Date (cannot be changed). I also cannot return day, month or year (bad OO). I cannot use java's buildt in Date class. Basically, I have ...

76. how to compare two timestamp    java-forums.org

77. regarding error of comparison of dates    java-forums.org

'else' without 'if' else if(cal.after(currentcal)) the above is the error message while compiling the below programme import java.util.*; import java.text.*; public class CompareDate { public static void main(String args[]) { Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); Calendar currentcal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.set(2000, Calendar.JUNE, 29); currentcal.set(currentcal.get(Calendar.YEAR),curre ntcal.get(Calendar.MONTH), currentcal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)); if(cal.before(currentcal)){ System.out.println("Current date("+ new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(currentcal.getTime())+")is greater than the given date " + newSimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(cal.getTime())); else if(cal.after(currentcal)) System.out.println("Current date("+ ...

78. comparing dates    java-forums.org

rectify errors and run the prog (output) import java.util.*; import java.text.*; public class CompareDate { public static void main(String args[]) { Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); Calendar currentcal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.set(2000, Calendar.JUNE, 29); SimpleDateFormat sdf =new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); currentcal.set(currentcal.get(Calendar.YEAR),curre ntcal.get(Calendar.MONTH), currentcal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)); if(cal.before(currentcal)){ System.out.println("Current date("+ new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(currentcal.getTime())+")is greater than the given date " + new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(cal.getTime())); } else if(cal.after(currentcal)){ System.out.println("Current date("+ new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").format(currentcal.getTime())+") is ...

79. Comparing dates in java    java-forums.org

Hi, I'm trying to compare current date - date1 (which I would like to get automatically from Calendar.getInstance();) to some future date, so that when the dates are equal I would recieve a message like - The moon is full. I've gotten the following code, but I don't know how to make it work because I'm new to java, so if ...

80. Comparing two java.util.Date    forums.oracle.com

81. compare date    forums.oracle.com

All in All, the code will have if's statement, some kind of string manipulation, so better start with this.. and i will try figure some way of around... if I get it i will post it.. and try google the way i around.. you will get more help then ever.. dont forget to post back for good solution you got... have ...

82. Date comparison    forums.oracle.com

The idea is that i the end I will be able to compare todays date (the day in which the program is compiled i.e. not a a fixed day) with each quarter not just comparing quarters with each other. Also is it possible to just select months instead of years bcause at present this program would only be compatible with this ...

83. Compare Two Date - Very Urgent    forums.oracle.com

84. Comparing dates    forums.oracle.com

85. About comparing Dates    forums.oracle.com

86. date compare...    forums.oracle.com

87. Date Compare Fails    forums.oracle.com

88. Comparing date    forums.oracle.com

89. Compare two dates    forums.oracle.com

Either your code looks different, or you mess with your Date objects. If you look at Date's equals() method, you can see that it compares the classes and the long values of the time field. The false output is not possible with the identical getTime() values and both objects being a java.util.Date.

90. Confusion while comparing date objects.    forums.oracle.com

Hi guys , while comparing two date objects i got confused how would i compare below dates Date Object: Wed Dec 23 10:17:22 IST 2009 Date string : 23-Dec-2009 (I have converted this string to date format which looks like this) Wed Dec 23 00:00:00 IST 2009 But whenever i compare them it doesn't says they r equal because of time ...

91. How to compare two dates    forums.oracle.com

92. comparing date problem    forums.oracle.com

93. date compare in java    forums.oracle.com

You're question is not clear due to bad grammar. Redo. I realise the English isn't every-ones first language, and I myself have been know misspell the odd word (there and here), but you need to communicate at-least clearly enough to make those who can help understand your problem. Try again dude. Cheers. Keith.

94. Comparing dates for equality using API    forums.oracle.com

95. How To compare SysDate and String Date    forums.oracle.com

96. Compare dates for equality but ignore time    forums.oracle.com

97. Comparing Dates, What am I not seeing?    forums.oracle.com

al.add("2010 8 31 12 54 26"); al.add("2010 09 01 12 53 10"); } public ArrayList sortMe() { Collections.sort(al, new Sorting()); return al; } public void printList(ArrayList alist) { for (int i=0; i < alist.size(); i++) System.out.println(alist.get(i)); } public static void main(String [] args) { DateTest dt = new DateTest(); dt.fillList(); ArrayList sorted = dt.sortMe(); dt.printList(sorted); } } class Sorting implements Comparator ...

98. Comparing 2 dates and putting results in predetermined buckets    forums.oracle.com

Hi all I want to write a method which takes in as parameters 2 date objects. It works out the difference (number of years) between the 2 dates and depending on this the results are flagged against 1 of 5 buckets. Each bucket represents the following number of years 2, 5, 10, 20 and 30. So if my first 2 dates ...

99. comparing time with date objects    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I have two time intervals say 0400 and 0800.Now how do i construct a date object using these time 0400 and 0800 ?.I need to carry out few things only if the current time is outside of the above time intervals. Using the below code does not seem to work.Please suggest a better way out. Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(); ...

100. how to compare date in java    forums.oracle.com