Regarding datefiled

[asahlot]

Hi All,

I am reading the datefield into a Date object. But then I want to get the day, month (numeric form) and years separately.

So I am doing this -
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int day, month, year;

Date dt = dateField.getDate ();

/* Here I want to get day, month and year out of dt. */
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Could you please tell me how to do that?

Thanks in advance
asahlot

[asahlot]

Guys it is sort of urgent. Could someone plz suggest something quickly?

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Hi,

You could use Calendar to do that. Something like this:

Calendar c=Calendar.getInstance();
c.setTime(dt);
int day=c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
int month=c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int year=c.get(Calendar.YEAR);

[asahlot]

I tried your code but it gives a different date from what dt gives.
Here is the code:
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DateField dateField = new DateField ("Enter Date", DateField.DATE);

Date dt = dateField.getDate ();
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(dt);

int day = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);

System.out.println("date on form:" + dt.toString ());
System.out.println ("gettime:" + dt.getTime ());
System.out.println ("Reading date aand about to print");
System.out.println ("day:" + day + "\n month: " + month + "\n year: " + year);
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Here is the output:
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date on form:Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-05:00 2008
gettime:1222837200000
Reading date aand about to print
day:4
month: 9
year: 2008
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Even if I comment out the line:
cal.setTime(dt);
I get the same output so in a way I think this line is not effective.

What could be wrong?

Thanks