Comparing two dates

what is the best way to compare two dates? If you have two dates with a year, month and day, and you want to return "true" if date #1 is less than or == to Date #2.

You can find the answer in the Java API documentation for java.util.Date class.
[ February 14, 2005: Message edited by: Yosi Hendarsjah ]

If you have them as individual integer values (3 each), you can skip creating a Date from them and just do it in an if test. You should reason out what that would look like, but I'll get you started.

Any date in 2004 is before every date in 2005.

In the same year, earlier months come before later months regardless of day of month.

... (I gotta leave something for you to figure out!)

import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.*;
 
public class comp
{
 
    public comp()
    {
    }
 
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        GregorianCalendar gregoriancalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
        Date date = gregoriancalendar.getTime(); //Current Date
        SimpleDateFormat simpledateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
        String s = simpledateformat.format(date);
        System.out.println(s + " - " + date);
        String args1[] = {
            "", "JAN", "FEB", "MAR", "APR", "MAY", "JUN", "JUL", "AUG", "SEP", 
            "OCT", "NOV", "DEC"
        };
        String s1 = "2003-11-21";  //User Entered Date
        StringTokenizer stringtokenizer = new StringTokenizer(s1, "-");
        String s2 = "";
        int i = 0;
        String s3 = "";
        s2 = stringtokenizer.nextToken();
        i = Integer.parseInt(stringtokenizer.nextToken());
        s3 = stringtokenizer.nextToken();
        String s4 = s3 + "-" + args1[i] + "-" + s2;
        Date date1 = new Date(s4);
        System.out.println(date1.before(date));
    }
}

[ February 21, 2005: Message edited by: kolkata prince ]

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