Java Second Format compareDate(String fistDate, String secondDate, String format)

Description

compare Date

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static boolean compareDate(String fistDate, String secondDate, String format) throws ParseException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public class Main {
    private static Map<String, SimpleDateFormat> formats = new HashMap();

    public static boolean compareDate(String fistDate, String secondDate, String format) throws ParseException {
        boolean flag = false;

        Date fist = null;// ww w .j  av a  2 s.com
        Date second = null;

        fist = getDateFromString(fistDate, format);

        second = getDateFromString(secondDate, format);
        if (fist.before(second)) {
            flag = true;
        }

        return flag;
    }

    public static Date getDateFromString(String date, String pattern) throws ParseException {
        SimpleDateFormat sDateFormat = getDateFormat(pattern);

        synchronized (sDateFormat) {
            return sDateFormat.parse(date);
        }
    }

    public static SimpleDateFormat getDateFormat(String pattern) {
        SimpleDateFormat sDateFormat = (SimpleDateFormat) formats.get(pattern);
        if (sDateFormat == null) {
            sDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
            formats.put(pattern, sDateFormat);
        }
        return sDateFormat;
    }
}

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