Suppose I have two dates, such as:
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss").withZone(DateTimeZone.forID("Asia/Kolkata"));
DateTime firstDate = formatter.parseDateTime("16-Feb-2012 12:03:45");
DateTime secondDate = formatter.parseDateTime("17-Feb-2013 12:03:45");
I want to compare these two dates to see if it will be firstDateearlier, later, or equal secondDate.
I could try the following.
System.out.println("firstDate = "+firstDate+"\nsecondDate = "+secondDate+"\ncomparison = "+firstDate.isBefore(secondDate));
System.out.println("firstDate = "+firstDate+"\nsecondDate = "+secondDate+"\ncomparison = "+firstDate.isAfter(secondDate));
System.out.println("firstDate = "+firstDate+"\nsecondDate = "+secondDate+"\ncomparison = "+firstDate.equals(secondDate));
What this code creates is exactly what I want.
It outputs the following result.
firstDate = 2012-02-16T12:03:45.000+05:30
secondDate = 2013-02-17T12:03:45.000+05:30
comparison = true
firstDate = 2012-02-16T12:03:45.000+05:30
secondDate = 2013-02-17T12:03:45.000+05:30
comparison = false
firstDate = 2012-02-16T12:03:45.000+05:30
secondDate = 2013-02-17T12:03:45.000+05:30
comparison = false
I need to ignore the seconds and millisecond part of these dates. I tried using methods withSecondOfMinute(0)and withMillis(0)as shown below.
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss").withZone(DateTimeZone.forID("Asia/Kolkata"));
DateTime firstDate = formatter.parseDateTime("16-Feb-2012 12:03:45").withSecondOfMinute(0).withMillis(0);
DateTime secondDate = formatter.parseDateTime("17-Feb-2013 12:03:45").withSecondOfMinute(0).withMillis(0);
But he gave the following result.
firstDate = 1970-01-01T05:30:00.000+05:30
secondDate = 1970-01-01T05:30:00.000+05:30
comparison = false
firstDate = 1970-01-01T05:30:00.000+05:30
secondDate = 1970-01-01T05:30:00.000+05:30
comparison = false
firstDate = 1970-01-01T05:30:00.000+05:30
secondDate = 1970-01-01T05:30:00.000+05:30
comparison = true
Method documents withSecondOfMinute()describe.
Returns a copy of this datetime with the second field of the minute updated. DateTime is unchanged, so there are no methods set. Instead, this method returns a new instance with the value of the second minute changed.
withMillis().
datetime . , . , .
, , DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance() .
if(DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance().compare(firstDate, secondDate)==0){}
if(DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance().compare(firstDate, secondDate)<0){}
if(DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance().compare(firstDate, secondDate)>0){}
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