比较java中的日期会给出错误的结果

Question

I'm comparing dates using following code

String sCreatedDate = "30.07.201514:57:03";
String sModifiedDate = "30.07.201515:40:34";            
SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyyHH:MM:SS");

Date d1 = parser.parse(sCreatedDate);
Date d2 = parser.parse(sModifiedDate);         
System.out.println(d1.before(d2));

It printing false , but I'm expecting it to print true .

can you please explain me what I'm doing wrong in this code?

However the above code is working fine for below dates and printing true value:

String sCreatedDate = "23.07.201507:25:35";
String sModifiedDate = "23.07.201507:26:07";

Answer 1

At the end of your format, you've used MM (months) instead of mm (minutes).

String sCreatedDate = "30.07.201514:57:03";
String sModifiedDate = "30.07.201515:40:34";            
SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyyHH:mm:ss");//mm small
Date d1 = parser.parse(sCreatedDate);
Date d2 = parser.parse(sModifiedDate);         
System.out.println(d1.before(d2));//true