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Franck,

The problem is that getTime (0 includes hour, minutes, and seconds as well.
So I wont' be able to compare just the dates but not the time.
A sample output of date from getTime is

Thu Dec 10 18:03:43 PST 1998

To clear the hour, minutes, and seconds, I would need to
call setHour, setMinute, and setsecond.  But these methods are
deprecated as well.  I need to clear out the time, so that
when I read a date from user input, which does not have the time part,
I can compare it against the current date via

Date.equals () and Date.after ().

Michael,

Franck Rasolo wrote:

> Michael,
>
> It's actully as straightforward as this :-
>
>         // Rather than creating an object GregorianCalendar which
>         // won't be used afterwards, call Calendar's static method
>         // Calendar.getInstance()
>
>         Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
>
> To check that you've got the right date, the easiest way is to print
> the newly created date to your console :-
>
>         System.out.println(date.toString());
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Franck
>
> Michael Nguyen wrote:
> >
> > I use  the following approach to get the current date only without the
> > curent minutes and seconds, so that I can compare the dates
> > without comparing the time.  However, the Date constructor is
> > deprecated.
> > What is the alternative and non-deprecated  method of getting the
> > current date without the time ?
> >
> > Date curr_date = new Date (calendar.get (Calendar.YEAR) - 1900,
> >         calendar.get (Calendar.MONTH), calendar.get
> > (Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
> >
> > Thanks for the info.
> >
> > Michael,
>
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