How to check if a date is greater than another in Java?
Parse the string into date, then compare using compareTo
, before
or after
Date d = new Date();
d.compareTo(anotherDate)
i.e
Date date1 = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").parse(date1string)
Date date2 = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").parse(date2string)
date1.compareTo(date2);
Copying the comment provided below by @MuhammadSaqib to complete this answer.
Returns the value 0 if the argument Date is equal to this Date; a value less than 0 if this Date is before the Date argument, and a value greater than 0 if this Date is after the Date argument. and NullPointerException - if anotherDate is null.
javadoc for compareTo http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Date.html#compareTo(java.util.Date)
You can use Date.before() or Date.after() or Date.equals() for date comparison.
Taken from here:
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class DateDiff {
public static void main( String[] args )
{
compareDates("2017-01-13 00:00:00", "2017-01-14 00:00:00");// output will be Date1 is before Date2
compareDates("2017-01-13 00:00:00", "2017-01-12 00:00:00");//output will be Date1 is after Date2
compareDates("2017-01-13 00:00:00", "2017-01-13 10:20:30");//output will be Date1 is before Date2 because date2 is ahead of date 1 by 10:20:30 hours
compareDates("2017-01-13 00:00:00", "2017-01-13 00:00:00");//output will be Date1 is equal Date2 because both date and time are equal
}
public static void compareDates(String d1,String d2)
{
try{
// If you already have date objects then skip 1
//1
// Create 2 dates starts
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date1 = sdf.parse(d1);
Date date2 = sdf.parse(d2);
System.out.println("Date1"+sdf.format(date1));
System.out.println("Date2"+sdf.format(date2));System.out.println();
// Create 2 dates ends
//1
// Date object is having 3 methods namely after,before and equals for comparing
// after() will return true if and only if date1 is after date 2
if(date1.after(date2)){
System.out.println("Date1 is after Date2");
}
// before() will return true if and only if date1 is before date2
if(date1.before(date2)){
System.out.println("Date1 is before Date2");
}
//equals() returns true if both the dates are equal
if(date1.equals(date2)){
System.out.println("Date1 is equal Date2");
}
System.out.println();
}
catch(ParseException ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static void compareDates(Date date1,Date date2)
{
// if you already have date objects then skip 1
//1
//1
//date object is having 3 methods namely after,before and equals for comparing
//after() will return true if and only if date1 is after date 2
if(date1.after(date2)){
System.out.println("Date1 is after Date2");
}
//before() will return true if and only if date1 is before date2
if(date1.before(date2)){
System.out.println("Date1 is before Date2");
}
//equals() returns true if both the dates are equal
if(date1.equals(date2)){
System.out.println("Date1 is equal Date2");
}
System.out.println();
}
}