Java - Can Calendar.getInstance() be used to differentiate past and future events

Question

I have an Event class. I am using a GregorianCalendar to store the date of the Event. If I want to find which events have already occurred before today and which events are in the future, does Calendar.getInstance() give the present date which I can then use to compare?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use Calendar.before() and Calendar.after() . Like So:

if(Calendar.getInstance().before(myEvent)){
   // do before stuff
} else if(Calendar.getInstance().after(myEvent)) {
   // do after
} else {
   // do right now
}

Answer 2

Taken off the first search https://www.google.com/search?q=Calendar.getInstance()

Like other locale-sensitive classes, Calendar provides a class method, getInstance, for getting a generally useful object of this type. Calendar's getInstance method returns a Calendar object whose calendar fields have been initialized with the current date and time:

 Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance();