Date class
The class Date represents a specific instant in time, with millisecond precision.
The following representations are used when accepting or returning year, month, date, hours, minutes, and seconds values.
- A year y is represented by the integer y - 1900.
- A month is represented by an integer from 0 to 11; 0 is January, 11 is December.
- A date (day of month) is represented by an integer from 1 to 31 in the usual manner.
- An hour is represented by an integer from 0 to 23. hour from midnight to 1 a.m. is hour 0, and the hour from noon to 1 p.m. is hour 12.
- A minute is represented by an integer from 0 to 59.
- A second is represented by an integer from 0 to 61; the values 60 and 61 occur only for leap seconds.
A date may be specified as January 32 and is interpreted as meaning February 1.
Constructors
Date()- Creates a Date object and initializes it with the time at which it was allocated.
Date(long date)- Creates a Date object and initializes it to represent the specified number of milliseconds since the standard base time known as "the epoch", namely January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.
Compare two Date value
boolean after(Date when)- Tests if this date is after the specified date.
boolean before(Date when)- Tests if this date is before the specified date.
int compareTo(Date anotherDate)- Compares two Dates for ordering.
boolean equals(Object obj)- Compares two dates for equality.
Convert date value to long value in milliseconds
long getTime()- Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this Date object.
void setTime(long time)- Sets this Date object to represent a point in time that is time milliseconds after January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT.
Convert Date value to String
String toString()- Converts this Date object to a String of the form:
Revised from Open JDK source code