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comparision between two dates

 
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I have two dates one is start date and the other one is end date.
how to find which one is greater among the two dates? and if end date is less than start date i want to display one error message.

please any one help regarding the date validations.
thanks in advance
 
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1) getTime()


2) before()

[ October 14, 2006: Message edited by: sven studde ]
 
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Hi cowboys,

the Date class implements Comparable, so it is also possible to use the compareTo method.
eg



Sven's probosal with the getTime() is more precise as you can obtain the exact milliseconds between the Date objects.
Anyway, when you want to determine days, hours and so on between the dates, you should get an instance of the Calendar class (also in java.util) and work with this.


Yours,
Bu.
[ October 14, 2006: Message edited by: Burkhard Hassel ]
 
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