Java Data Type How to - Do Date comparison

Question

We would like to know how to do Date comparison.

Answer

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
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public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyy");
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    String today = dateFormat.format(cal.getTime());
    System.out.println(today);

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyy");
    Date actualdate = sdf.parse(today);
    Date date1 = sdf.parse("20042014");
    Date date2 = sdf.parse("23042015");
    Calendar actual = Calendar.getInstance();
    Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();
    Calendar cal2 = Calendar.getInstance();
    actual.setTime(actualdate);
    cal1.setTime(date1);
    cal2.setTime(date2);

    System.out.println(actual);
    System.out.println(cal1);
    System.out.println(cal2);

    if (actualdate.after(date1) && actualdate.before(date2)) {
      System.out.println("Yes");
    } else {
      System.out.println("No");
    }

    if (actual.after(cal1) && actual.before(cal2)) {
      System.out.println("Yes");
    } else {
      System.out.println("No");
    }

  }

}

The code above generates the following result.