Java Date Create date(final int year, final int month, final int dayOfMonth)

Description

An easy and non-deprecated non-lenient way of creating Date objects.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
year	the year, e.g. 2007 is year 2007
month	the month, where 1 == January
dayOfMonth	the day of the month, where 1 == first day of the month

Return

a Date object with time set to midnight, ie. hour = 00, minutes = 00, seconds = 00 and milliseconds = 000

Declaration

public static Date date(final int year, final int month,
        final int dayOfMonth) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   w ww.j  a va2  s  .c om*/
 * Copyright 2007 Kasper B. Graversen
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    /**
     * An easy and non-deprecated non-lenient way of creating Date objects.
     * 
     * @param year
     *            the year, e.g. 2007 is year 2007
     * @param month
     *            the month, where 1 == January
     * @param dayOfMonth
     *            the day of the month, where 1 == first day of the month
     * @return a Date object with time set to midnight, ie. hour = 00, minutes = 00, seconds = 00 and milliseconds = 000
     */
    public static Date date(final int year, final int month,
            final int dayOfMonth) {
        final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setLenient(false);
        cal.set(year, month - 1, dayOfMonth, 0, 0, 0);
        cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
        return cal.getTime();
    }

    /**
     * An easy and non-deprecated non-lenient way of creating Date objects.
     * 
     * @param year
     *            the year, e.g. 2007 is year 2007
     * @param month
     *            the month, where 1 == January
     * @param dayOfMonth
     *            the day of the month, where 1 == first day of the month
     * @param hour
     *            the hour in 24 hour format where 0 == midnight
     * @param minute
     *            is the minute 0-59
     * @param second
     *            is the seconds 0-59
     * @return a Date object with time set to midnight, ie. hour = 00, minutes = 00, seconds = 00 and milliseconds = 000
     */
    public static Date date(final int year, final int month,
            final int dayOfMonth, final int hour, final int minute,
            final int second) {
        final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setLenient(false);
        cal.set(year, month - 1, dayOfMonth, hour, minute, second);
        cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
        return cal.getTime();
    }
}

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