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Why not extend the class to do what you want?

Regards
Steve

Michael Nguyen wrote:

> 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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