Date and calendar java

Question

class Employee
{
private Date doj;

public Employee (Date doj)
{
this.doj=doj;
}
public Date getDoj()
{
return doj;
}
}


class TestEmployeeSort
{
public static List<Employee> getEmployees()
{
  List<Employee> col=new ArrayList<Employee>();
  col.add(new Employee(new Date(1986,21,22));
}
}

In the above code i have used Date to set a date. I want to know how to use calendar function to do this. I know that i can use getInstance() and set the date. But I don't know how to implement it. Please help me to know how to set Date using Calendar function

Answer 1

tl;dr

LocalDate.of( 1986 , Month.FEBRUARY , 23 )

Date-only

Neither of those classes, Date & Calendar , are suitable.

You apparently want a date-only value without a time-of-day and without a time zone. In contrast, the Date class is a date with a time-of-day in UTC, and Calendar is a date-time with a time zone.

Furthermore, both Date & Calendar are obsolete, replaced by the java.time classes.

LocalDate

The LocalDate class represents a date-only value without time-of-day and without time zone.

Today

A time zone is crucial in determining a date. For any given moment, the date varies around the globe by zone. For example, a few minutes after midnight in Paris France is a new day while still “yesterday” in Montréal Québec .

If no time zone is specified, the JVM implicitly applies its current default time zone. That default may change at any moment, so your results may vary. Better to specify your desired/expected time zone explicitly as an argument.

Specify a proper time zone name in the format of continent/region , such as America/Montreal , Africa/Casablanca , or Pacific/Auckland . Never use the 3-4 letter abbreviation such as EST or IST as they are not true time zones, not standardized, and not even unique(!).

ZoneId z = ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" );
LocalDate today = LocalDate.now( z );  // Get current date for a particular time zone.

Specific date

Or specify a date. You may set the month by a number, with sane numbering 1-12 for January-December, unlike the crazy zero-based numbering in the legacy class.

LocalDate ld = LocalDate.of( 1986 , 2 , 23 ) ;  // Both year and month have same numbering. 1986 is the year 1986. 1-12 is January-December. 

Or, better, use the Month enum objects pre-defined, one for each month of the year. Tip: Use these Month objects throughout your codebase rather than a mere integer number to make your code more self-documenting, ensure valid values, and provide type-safety .

LocalDate ld = LocalDate.of( 1986 , Month.FEBRUARY , 23 ) ;

Strings

Generate a String representing the date value in standard ISO 8601 format by calling toString : YYYY-MM-DD. For other formats, see DateTimeFormatter class.

String output = ld.toString() ;  // Generate a string in standard ISO 8601 format, YYYY-MM-DD.

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About java.time

The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date , Calendar , & SimpleDateFormat .

The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode , advises migration to the java.time classes.

To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial . And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310 .

Where to obtain the java.time classes?

• Java SE 8 , Java SE 9 , and later
  • Built-in.
  • Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
  • Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
• Java SE 6 and Java SE 7
  • Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport .
• Android
  • Later versions of Android bundle implementations of the java.time classes.
  • For earlier Android, the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above). See How to use ThreeTenABP… .

The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval , YearWeek , YearQuarter , and more .

Answer 2

String months[] = { "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug",
        "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec" };

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();

System.out.print("Date: ");
System.out.print(months[calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH)]);
System.out.print(" " + calendar.get(Calendar.DATE) + " ");
System.out.println(calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR));

System.out.print("Time: ");
System.out.print(calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR) + ":");
System.out.print(calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE) + ":");
System.out.println(calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND));

calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR, 10);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 29);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 22);

System.out.print("Updated time: ");
System.out.print(calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR) + ":");
System.out.print(calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE) + ":");
System.out.println(calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND));