date

[Shein Zeya]

I would like to know about Date Util.In fact I am trying to write a program in which the Date of Birth entered by user will be checked.If the date is a future date ....there will be error warrning "Invalid DOB".So what I need is to change the entered date to my format and compare it with the current date.
Please help me...I need some good source codes and examples.

I am a little urgent...Thank you.

[Bear Bibeault]

Please read this.

[sunil gupta]

use java simpledateformat to convert the format of date to whatever format is required.

here is sample code.



import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;

/** class to hold Dynex specific timestamp format */
public class TimeStamp
{
/** XCBL FORMAT 20021213T00:00:00+08:00 */
private static final String xcblFormat = "yyyyMMdd'T'hh:mm:ss";
/** string to hold timestamp format */
private static final String format1 = "yyyyMMddhhmmss";
/** 16/09/2002 15:43:00 */
private static final String format2 = "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss";
/** 20020404T00:00:00+10:00 combine to make previous date */
private static final String format3 = "yyyyMMdd";
private static final String format4 = "hh:mm:ss";
private static final String format5 = "dd/MM/yyyy";
private static final String format6 = "yyyy-MMM-dd";
private static final String format7 = "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss";
private static final String mimeFormat = "EE','d MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss Z '('z')'";

private String format1Result = "";
private String format2Result = "";
private String format3Result = "";
private String format4Result = "";
private String format5Result = "";
private String format6Result = "";
private String format7Result = "";
private String mimeResult = "";

private Date DateFormat1 = null;
private Date DateFormat2 = null;
private Date DateFormat3 = null;
private Date DateFormat4 = null;
private Date DateFormat5 = null;
private Date DateFormat6 = null;
private Date DateFormat7 = null;
private Date DateFormatMime = null;

private Date now = null;

/** Get a string representaion of a date in format 1
* @return the date as a string in format 1
*/
public String getFormat1()
{
return format1Result;
}
/** Get a string representaion of a date in format 2
* @return the date as a string in format 2
*/
public String getFormat2()
{
return format2Result;
}
/** Get a string representaion of a date in format 3
* @return the date as a string in format 3
*/
public String getFormat3()
{
return format3Result;
}
/** Get a string representaion of a date in format 4
* @return the date as a string in format 4
*/
public String getFormat4()
{
return format4Result;
}
/** Get a string representaion of a date in format 5
* @return the date as a string in format 5
*/
public String getFormat5()
{
return format5Result;
}
/** Get a string representaion of a date in format 6
* @return the date as a string in format 6
*/
public String getFormat6()
{
return format6Result;
}

/** Get a string representaion of a date in format 7
* @return the date as a string in format 7
*/
public String getFormat7()
{
return format7Result;
}
/** Get a string representaion of a date in XCBL format
* @return the date as a string in XCBL format
*/
public String getXCBLFormat()
{
return format3Result + "T" + format4Result;
}
/** Get a string representaion of a date in MIME format
* @return the date as a string in MIME format
*/
public String getMimeFormat()
{
return mimeResult;
}
/** Get a Date in format 1
* @return the date in format 1
*/
public Date getDateFormat1()
{
return DateFormat1;
}
/** Get a Date in format 2
* @return the date in format 2
*/
public Date getDateFormat2()
{
return DateFormat2;
}
/** Get a Date in format 3
* @return the date in format 3
*/
public Date getDateFormat3()
{
return DateFormat3;
}
/** Get a Date in format 4
* @return the date in format 4
*/
public Date getDateFormat4()
{
return DateFormat4;
}
/** Get a Date in format 5
* @return the date in format 5
*/
public Date getDateFormat5()
{
return DateFormat5;
}
/** Get a Date in format 6
* @return the date in format 6
*/
public Date getDateFormat6()
{
return DateFormat6;
}
/** Get a Date in format 7
* @return the date in format 7
*/
public Date getDateFormat7()
{
return DateFormat7;
}
/** Get a Date
* @return the date
*/
public Date getDate()
{
if(now == null)
{
generateTimeStamp();
}
return now;
}

/**
* parse a string into date format 2
* @param val
* @return
*/
public Date parseDateFormat2(String val) throws Exception
{
return new SimpleDateFormat(format2).parse(val);
}

/** convert a date (22/12/2003) to and XCBL date ()
* @param normalDate the date to convert
* @return an XCBL format string of the date
*/
public String convertToXCBL(Date normalDate)
{
String ret = "";

try
{
SimpleDateFormat formatterX = new SimpleDateFormat(xcblFormat);
ret = formatterX.format(normalDate);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
}

return ret;
}

public String convertDate(String origFormat, String requiredFormat, String dateVal) throws Exception
{
SimpleDateFormat origFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(origFormat);

Date retDate = origFormatter.parse(dateVal);

SimpleDateFormat resFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(requiredFormat);

return resFormatter.format(retDate);

}

/** generate a new current timestamp */
public void generateTimeStamp()
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter1 = new SimpleDateFormat(format1);
SimpleDateFormat formatter2 = new SimpleDateFormat(format2);
SimpleDateFormat formatter3 = new SimpleDateFormat(format3);
SimpleDateFormat formatter4 = new SimpleDateFormat(format4);
SimpleDateFormat formatter5 = new SimpleDateFormat(format5);
SimpleDateFormat formatter6 = new SimpleDateFormat(format6);
SimpleDateFormat formatter7 = new SimpleDateFormat(format7);
SimpleDateFormat formatterMime = new SimpleDateFormat(mimeFormat);

now = new Date();

format1Result = formatter1.format(now);
format2Result = formatter2.format(now);
format3Result = formatter3.format(now);
format4Result = formatter4.format(now);
format5Result = formatter5.format(now);
format6Result = formatter6.format(now);
format7Result = formatter7.format(now);
mimeResult = formatterMime.format(now);

}

/** Set the date
* @param val the date to set
*/
public void setDate(Date val)
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter1 = new SimpleDateFormat(format1);
SimpleDateFormat formatter2 = new SimpleDateFormat(format2);
SimpleDateFormat formatter3 = new SimpleDateFormat(format3);
SimpleDateFormat formatter4 = new SimpleDateFormat(format4);
SimpleDateFormat formatter5 = new SimpleDateFormat(format5);
SimpleDateFormat formatter6 = new SimpleDateFormat(format6);
SimpleDateFormat formatter7 = new SimpleDateFormat(format7);
SimpleDateFormat formatterMime = new SimpleDateFormat(mimeFormat);

format1Result = formatter1.format(val);
format2Result = formatter2.format(val);
format3Result = formatter3.format(val);
format4Result = formatter4.format(val);
format5Result = formatter5.format(val);
format6Result = formatter6.format(val);
format7Result = formatter7.format(val);
mimeResult = formatterMime.format(val);
}

/** Generate a date in a specific format
* @param val the string value of the date
* @param format the formt to generate
*/
public void generateDate(String val, int format)
{
try
{
if(format == 1)
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter1 = new SimpleDateFormat(format1);
DateFormat1 = formatter1.parse(val);
}

if(format == 2)
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter2 = new SimpleDateFormat(format2);
DateFormat2 = formatter2.parse(val);
}

if(format == 3)
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter3 = new SimpleDateFormat(format3);
DateFormat3 = formatter3.parse(val);
}

if(format == 4)
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter4 = new SimpleDateFormat(format4);
DateFormat4 = formatter4.parse(val);
}

if(format == 5)
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter5 = new SimpleDateFormat(format5);
DateFormat5 = formatter5.parse(val);
}

if(format == 6)
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter6 = new SimpleDateFormat(format6);
DateFormat6 = formatter6.parse(val);
}

if(format == 7)
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter7 = new SimpleDateFormat(format7);
DateFormat7 = formatter7.parse(val);
}

if(format == 8)
{
SimpleDateFormat formatterMime = new SimpleDateFormat(mimeFormat);
DateFormatMime = formatterMime.parse(val);
}
}
catch(ParseException pe)
{
pe.printStackTrace();
}
}

/** Main entry point for program
* @param args the arguements
*/
public static void main(String[] args)
{
}
}