Java Date Time - LocalDateTime compareTo( ChronoLocalDateTime other) example

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LocalDateTime compareTo(ChronoLocalDateTime<?> other) compares this date-time to another date-time.

Syntax

compareTo has the following syntax.

public int compareTo(ChronoLocalDateTime<?> other)

Example

The following example shows how to use compareTo.

import java.time.LocalDateTime;
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public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    LocalDateTime a = LocalDateTime.of(2012, 6, 30, 12, 00);
    LocalDateTime b = LocalDateTime.of(2012, 7, 1, 12, 00);
    System.out.println(a.compareTo(b));
    System.out.println(a.compareTo(a));
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

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