Compares two Dates for ordering.
Syntax
public int compareTo(Date anotherDate)
Parameters
anotherDate – the Date to be compared.
Return Value − 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.
Example
Following is an example of the usage of this method −
class Example {
static void main(String[] args) {
Date olddate = new Date("05/11/2015");
Date newdate = new Date("05/11/2015");
Date latestdate = new Date();
System.out.println(olddate.compareTo(newdate));
System.out.println(latestdate.compareTo(newdate));
}
}
When we run the above program, we will get the following result −
0 1
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