Using java Calendar how can you combine the start date, day and starttime?
For example:
If the start date is 9/8/2020. The day is 2 and the start time is 8:00 AM then how can we obtain a java date that is 9/9/2020 8:00 AM. Here is my unsuccessful attempt.
def startDateTime(Date startDate, int day, java.sql.Time startTime){
def date
date = Calendar.getInstance()
date.setTime(startDate)
//adding day. since day 1 is the first day we need to add day - 1
date.add(Calendar.DATE, day - 1)
// setting the time from startTime
date.setTimeInMillis(startTime.getTime())
return date.getTime()
}
Thanks for the help.
You are calling date.setTime(startDate)
and date.setTimeInMillis(startTime.getTime())
. 2nd method is overriding the time set in 1st method. You should create 2 separate instances of Calendar.
Here is how you can achieve this
Calendar
instances for startDay
and startTime
Calendar
object from separate Calendar
objects created in #1 & add day
as per requirementHere is the complete code:
import java.sql.Time;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
public class ProofOfConcept {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int day = 2;
Time startTime = new Time(1, 1, 1);
Calendar timeCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
timeCalendar.setTime(startTime);
Date startDate = new Date();
Calendar startDateCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
startDateCalendar.setTime(startDate);
/* Only java 8 and above
LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.of(startDateCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR), startDateCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1, startDateCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH),
timeCalendar.get(Calendar.HOUR), timeCalendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE), timeCalendar.get(Calendar.SECOND));
localDateTime = localDateTime.plusDays(day);
System.out.println("localDateTime : " + localDateTime);
Date dateFromLocalDateTime = Date.from(localDateTime.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant());
System.out.println("dateFromLocalDateTime : " + dateFromLocalDateTime);*/
Calendar result = Calendar.getInstance();
result.set(startDateCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR), startDateCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH), startDateCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) + 2,
timeCalendar.get(Calendar.HOUR), timeCalendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE), timeCalendar.get(Calendar.SECOND));
Date date = result.getTime();
System.out.println("date : " + date);
}
}
Output:
date : Tue Sep 08 01:01:01 IST 2020
Note : I suggest using java.time.*
packages over java.util.*
. Why? Check this. But this is only available in java 8. (Though, you can use joda time in versions below 8).
Edit : Moving Ole V.V. 's comment to answer.
For Java 7, I suggest using java.time
, the modern Java date and time API, through the backport, ThreeTen Backport.
static LocalDateTime startDateTime(Date startDate, int day, java.sql.Time startTime) {
LocalTime startLocalTime = DateTimeUtils.toLocalTime(startTime);
return DateTimeUtils.toInstant(startDate)
.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault())
.toLocalDate()
.plusDays(day - 1)
.atTime(startLocalTime);
}