Java Date Comparison

Introduction

In this blog, I am going to explain the program for the date comparison program in Java

Software Requirements

Java, Notepad.

Program

import java.util.Date;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public class DateComparison {
private static void DateComparison() {
Date comparetodaydate = new Date();
Date comparedate = (Date) comparetodaydate.clone();
Date comparedate1970 = new Date(24 L * 60 L * 60 L * 1000 L);
System.out.println("Comparison of two dates by using the equals() method:");
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Today's date:" + comparetodaydate);
System.out.println("Compairing date:" + comparedate);
if (comparetodaydate.equals(comparedate)) {
System.out.println("The two dates are equal");
} else {
System.out.println("The two dates are not equal");
}
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Comparison of two dates by using the equals() method:");
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Today's date:" + comparetodaydate);
System.out.println("Compairing date:" + comparedate1970);
if (comparetodaydate.equals(comparedate1970)) {
System.out.println("The two dates are equal");
} else {
System.out.println("The two dates are not equal");
}
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Comparison of two dates by using the before() method:");
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Today's date:" + comparetodaydate);
System.out.println("Compairing date:" + comparedate1970);
if (comparetodaydate.before(comparedate1970)) {
System.out.println("Today's date comes before the compairing date");
} else {
System.out.println("Today's date does not come before the compairing date");
}
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Comparison of two dates by using the after() method::");
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Today's date:" + comparetodaydate);
System.out.println("Compairing date:" + comparedate1970);
if (comparetodaydate.after(comparedate1970)) {
System.out.println("Today's date comes after the compairing date");
} else {
System.out.println("Today's date does not come after the compairing date");
System.out.println();
}
System.out.println();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println();
DateComparison();
}
}

Output