Converting a Date object to a calendar object
Here's your method:
public static Calendar toCalendar(Date date){
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
return cal;
}
Everything else you are doing is both wrong and unnecessary.
BTW, Java Naming conventions suggest that method names start with a lower case letter, so it should be: dateToCalendar
or toCalendar
(as shown).
OK, let's milk your code, shall we?
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
date = (Date)formatter.parse(date.toString());
DateFormat
is used to convert Strings to Dates (parse()
) or Dates to Strings (format()
). You are using it to parse the String representation of a Date back to a Date. This can't be right, can it?
Just use Apache Commons
DateUtils.toCalendar(Date date)