How to compare dates in Java?

Date has before and after methods and can be compared to each other as follows: For an inclusive comparison: You could also give Joda-Time a go, but note that: Joda-Time is the de facto standard date and time library for Java prior to Java SE 8. Users are now asked to migrate to java.time (JSR-310). Back-ports are available for Java 6 and 7 as well as Android.

Current time formatting with Javascript

A JavaScript Date has several methods allowing you to extract its parts: getFullYear() – Returns the 4-digit yeargetMonth() – Returns a zero-based integer (0-11) representing the month of the year.getDate() – Returns the day of the month (1-31).getDay() – Returns the day of the week (0-6). 0 is Sunday, 6 is Saturday.getHours() – Returns the hour of the day (0-23).getMinutes() – … Read more

Query comparing dates in SQL

Instead of ‘2013-04-12’ whose meaning depends on the local culture, use ‘20130412’ which is recognized as the culture invariant format. If you want to compare with December 4th, you should write ‘20131204’. If you want to compare with April 12th, you should write ‘20130412’. The article Write International Transact-SQL Statements from SQL Server’s documentation explains how to … Read more

Parsing a string to a date in JavaScript

The best string format for string parsing is the date ISO format together with the JavaScript Date object constructor. Examples of ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS. But wait! Just using the “ISO format” doesn’t work reliably by itself. String are sometimes parsed as UTC and sometimes as localtime (based on browser vendor and version). The best practice should always … Read more

Add days to JavaScript Date

You can create one with:- This takes care of automatically incrementing the month if necessary. For example: 8/31 + 1 day will become 9/1. The problem with using setDate directly is that it’s a mutator and that sort of thing is best avoided. ECMA saw fit to treat Date as a mutable class rather than an immutable structure.

Is there any way to change input type=”date” format?

It is impossible to change the format We have to differentiate between the over the wire format and the browser’s presentation format. Wire format The HTML5 date input specification refers to the RFC 3339 specification, which specifies a full-date format equal to: yyyy-mm-dd. See section 5.6 of the RFC 3339 specification for more details. This format is used by the value HTML attribute … Read more