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compare dates for equality with a few minutes of "leniency"

 
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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 minutes.

Does the compareTo method on java.util,date return a value based on the amount of difference or does it just return -1,0,1?

 
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It doesn't specify either of those in the documentation, which is the only authority you should be relying on. However it shouldn't be too onerous for you to write a method which finds the absolute value of the difference between the internal long values.
 
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good point. the long values are the seconds since "epoch" right? What is the easiest way to get the long values? I don't see a method on the Date Class to retrieve it.
 
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Look closer.
 
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dur..... I should have seen that!!
 
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check getTime() , Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this Date object.
 
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