This article shows Java 8 and legacy date-time APIs example to check if a date is 30 days or 6 months older than the current date. 1. Java 8 isBefore() 2. Java 8 ChronoUnit.{UNIT}.between() 3. Java 8 Period.between() 4. Legacy Calendar and Date 5. References 1. Java 8 isBefore() First minus the current date and […]
A collection of Java date and time examples. 1. Java Date Time APIs In old days, we use the following classic Date and Calendar APIs to represent and manipulate date. java.util.Date – date and time, print with default time-zone. java.util.Calendar – date and time, more methods to manipulate date. java.text.SimpleDateFormat – formatting (date -> text), […]
In this tutorial, we will show you few examples (ZonedDateTime (Java 8), Date, Calendar and Joda Time) to convert a date and time between different time zones. All examples will be converting the date and time from (UTC+8:00) Asia/Singapore – Singapore Time Date : 22-1-2015 10:15:55 AM to (UTC-5:00) America/New_York – Eastern Standard Time Date […]
In Java, you can use calendar.setTime(date) to convert a Date object to a Calendar object. Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(); Date newDate = calendar.setTime(date); A Full example DateAndCalendar.java import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.Date; public class DateAndCalendar { public static void main(String[] argv) throws ParseException { //1. Create a Date from String SimpleDateFormat sdf […]
This tutorial shows you how to work with java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar. 1. Java Date Examples Few examples to work with Date APIs. Example 1.1 – Convert Date to String. SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/M/yyyy"); String date = sdf.format(new Date()); System.out.println(date); //15/10/2013 Example 1.2 – Convert String to Date. SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-M-yyyy hh:mm:ss"); String […]
This article shows few examples to compare two dates in Java. Updated with Java 8 examples. 1. Compare two date 1.1 Date.compareTo 1.2 Date.before(), Date.after() and Date.equals() 1.3 Check if a date is within a certain range 2. Compare two calendar 3. Compare two date and time (Java 8) 3.1 Compare two LocalDate 3.2 Compare […]
In this tutorial, we will show you how to get the current date time from the new Java 8 java.time.* like Localdate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime, ZonedDateTime, Instant and also the legacy date time APIs like Date and Calendar. Table of contents 1. Get current date time in Java 2. java.time.LocalDate 3. java.time.LocalTime 4. java.time.LocalDateTime 5. java.time.ZonedDateTime […]
