You might want to take a look at Joda Time which is a really good API for dealing with date/time. Even though if you don't really need it for the solution to your current question it is bound to save you pain in the future.
import java.util.Date;
public class IsDateBetween {
public static void main (String[] args) {
IsDateBetween idb=new IsDateBetween("12/05/2010"); // passing your Date
}
public IsDateBetween(String dd) {
long from=Date.parse("01/01/2000"); // From some date
long to=Date.parse("12/12/2010"); // To Some Date
long check=Date.parse(dd);
int x=0;
if((check-from)>0 && (to-check)>0)
{
x=1;
}
System.out.println ("From Date is greater Than ToDate : "+x);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
String oeStartDateStr = "04/01/";
String oeEndDateStr = "11/14/";
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
Integer year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
oeStartDateStr = oeStartDateStr.concat(year.toString());
oeEndDateStr = oeEndDateStr.concat(year.toString());
Date startDate = sdf.parse(oeStartDateStr);
Date endDate = sdf.parse(oeEndDateStr);
Date d = new Date();
String currDt = sdf.format(d);
if((d.after(startDate) && (d.before(endDate))) || (currDt.equals(sdf.format(startDate)) ||currDt.equals(sdf.format(endDate)))){
System.out.println("Date is between 1st april to 14th nov...");
}
else{
System.out.println("Date is not between 1st april to 14th nov...");
}
}
Here's a couple ways to do this using the Joda-Time 2.3 library.
One way is to use the simple isBefore and isAfter methods on DateTime instances. By the way, DateTime in Joda-Time is similar in concept to a java.util.Date (a moment in time on the timeline of the Universe) but includes a time zone.
Another way is to build an Interval in Joda-Time. The contains method tests if a given DateTime occurs within the span of time covered by the Interval. The beginning of the Interval is inclusive, but the endpoint is exclusive. This approach is known as "Half-Open", symbolically [).
See both ways in the following code example.
Convert the java.util.Date instances to Joda-Time DateTime instances. Simply pass the Date instance to constructor of DateTime. In practice you should also pass a specific DateTimeZone object rather than rely on JVM’s default time zone.
DateTime dateTime1 = new DateTime( new java.util.Date() ).minusWeeks( 1 );
DateTime dateTime2 = new DateTime( new java.util.Date() );
DateTime dateTime3 = new DateTime( new java.util.Date() ).plusWeeks( 1 );
Here's how to find whether today is between 2 months:
private boolean isTodayBetween(int from, int to) {
if (from < 0 || to < 0 || from > Calendar.DECEMBER || to > Calendar.DECEMBER) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid month provided: from = " + from + " to = " + to);
}
Date now = new Date();
GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
cal.setTime(now);
int thisMonth = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
if (from > to) {
to = to + Calendar.DECEMBER;
thisMonth = thisMonth + Calendar.DECEMBER;
}
if (thisMonth >= from && thisMonth <= to) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
Between dates Including end points can be written as
public static boolean isDateInBetweenIncludingEndPoints(final Date min, final Date max, final Date date){
return !(date.before(min) || date.after(max));
}
NB: as @Ponmudi pointed out in the comments, this solution may not work if the dates are different at miilliseconds level.