calender & date class

[trupti nigam]

Hello all,
Every time I use the Date & calender class i get very confused.
In my program I am storing the date(timestamp) in te hash map wih the unique key.
A timer task wakes up at regular intervals & browse throgh the hashmap & deletes all the objects fo wich the timeStamp is older than 5 minutes.
If i store the date into the hashmap how do i get the time out of it?/
also apart from the above problem can anybody send me a nice link where the use of calender & date class is clearly shown.
Thanks in advance..
trupti

[Siva Prasad]

Hi
Try to use DateFormat class. Its pretty useful when you want deal with Date/Time stamps or both.
Cheers
sivaPrasad