public class Date

Object
Date

The class Date represents a specific instant in time, with millisecond precision. This class has been subset for the J2ME based on the JDK 1.3 Date class. Many methods and variables have been pruned, and other methods simplified, in an effort to reduce the size of this class. Although the Date class is intended to reflect coordinated universal time (UTC), it may not do so exactly, depending on the host environment of the Java Virtual Machine. Nearly all modern operating systems assume that 1 day = 24x60x60 = 86400 seconds in all cases. In UTC, however, about once every year or two there is an extra second, called a “leap second.” The leap second is always added as the last second of the day, and always on December 31 or June 30. For example, the last minute of the year 1995 was 61 seconds long, thanks to an added leap second. Most computer clocks are not accurate enough to be able to reflect the leap-second distinction. Version: CLDC 1.1 03/13/2002 (Based on JDK 1.3) See Also:TimeZone, Calendar

Constructors

`public Date()`	Allocates a Date object and initializes it to represent the current time specified number of milliseconds since the standard base time known as “the epoch”, namely January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.
`public Date(long date)`	Allocates a Date object and initializes it to represent the specified number of milliseconds since the standard base time known as “the epoch”, namely January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.

Methods

`public boolean equals(Object obj)`	Compares two dates for equality.
`public long getTime()`	Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this Date object.
`public int hashCode()`	Returns a hash code value for this object.
`public void setTime(long time)`	Sets this Date object to represent a point in time that is time milliseconds after January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT.
`public` `String toString()`	Converts this Date object to a String of the form: dow mon dd hh:mm:ss zzz yyyy where: dow is the day of the week (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat).
`public int compareTo(Date arg0)`	Compares this object to the specified object to determine their relative order.

Inherited methods

From Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait, clone

Constructor details

Date

public Date()

Allocates a Date object and initializes it to represent the current time specified number of milliseconds since the standard base time known as “the epoch”, namely January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT. See Also:System.currentTimeMillis()

Date

public Date(long date)

Allocates a Date object and initializes it to represent the specified number of milliseconds since the standard base time known as “the epoch”, namely January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT. Parameters:date - the milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.See Also:System.currentTimeMillis()

Method details

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Compares two dates for equality. The result is true if and only if the argument is not null and is a Date object that represents the same point in time, to the millisecond, as this object. Thus, two Date objects are equal if and only if the getTime method returns the same long value for both.

getTime

public long getTime()

Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this Date object.

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Returns a hash code value for this object. The result is the exclusive OR of the two halves of the primitive long value returned by the method. That is, the hash code is the value of the expression: (int)(this.getTime()^(this.getTime() »> 32))

setTime

public void setTime(long time)

Sets this Date object to represent a point in time that is time milliseconds after January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT.

toString

public String toString()

Converts this Date object to a String of the form: dow mon dd hh:mm:ss zzz yyyy where: dow is the day of the week (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat). mon is the month (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec). dd is the day of the month (01 through 31), as two decimal digits. hh is the hour of the day (00 through 23), as two decimal digits. mm is the minute within the hour (00 through 59), as two decimal digits. ss is the second within the minute (00 through 61, as two decimal digits. zzz is the time zone (and may reflect daylight savings time). If time zone information is not available, then zzz is empty - that is, it consists of no characters at all. yyyy is the year, as four decimal digits.

compareTo

public int compareTo(Date arg0)

Compares this object to the specified object to determine their relative order.

Parameters

arg0 Date: the object to compare to this instance.

Returns

a negative integer if this instance is less than another; a positive integer if this instance is greater than another; 0 if this instance has the same order as another.

Throws

ClassCastException: if another cannot be converted into something comparable to this instance.