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Mike - 06 Nov 2006 01:39 GMT

I'm trying to instantiate a Date object with year, month, day, hour,
and minute. Any ideas? The date constructor is deprecated and
GregorianCalendar is the object I'm trying to use. Do you think
casting will work?

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Hal Rosser - 06 Nov 2006 01:57 GMT

Look at SimpleDateFormat class. To create a SimpleDasteFormat object that
can parse a string like "12/25/2006" into a date. Then you can create your
GregorianCalendar object from the date object.

> I'm trying to instantiate a Date object with year, month, day, hour,
> and minute. Any ideas? The date constructor is deprecated and
> GregorianCalendar is the object I'm trying to use. Do you think
> casting will work?

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Daniel Pitts - 06 Nov 2006 02:46 GMT

> > I'm trying to instantiate a Date object with year, month, day, hour,
> > and minute. Any ideas? The date constructor is deprecated and
> > GregorianCalendar is the object I'm trying to use. Do you think
> > casting will work?

Casting will not work, GregorianCalendar is not derived from Date. Read
below...

> Look at SimpleDateFormat class. To create a SimpleDasteFormat object that
> can parse a string like "12/25/2006" into a date. Then you can create your
> GregorianCalendar object from the date object.

You ignore Hal Rosser's bad advice, and do the correct thing by using:

GregorianCalendar calendar = new GragorianCalendar(year, month, day,
hour, minute);
Date date = .calendar.getTime();

If you look in the API javadoc, you might have been able to figure that
out yourself. I suggest you try that next time for a quicker response.

:-)

Good luck.
- Daniel

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Mike - 06 Nov 2006 13:05 GMT

Thanks Daniel,

I was a bit confused honestly from looking at the javadoc. I assumed
that .getTime() would get the system's time. My assumptions were the
least bit educated. Thanks.

> > > I'm trying to instantiate a Date object with year, month, day, hour,
> > > and minute. Any ideas? The date constructor is deprecated and
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> Good luck.
> - Daniel

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