In this example you’ll see the utilization of SimpleDateFormat class for comparing two dates for equality. We convert the date object into string using the DateFormat instance and then compare it using String.equals() method.

package org.kodejava.example.util;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class ComparingDate {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //
        // Create a SimpleDateFormat instance with dd/MM/yyyy format
        //
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

        //
        // Get the current date
        //
        Date today = new Date();
        
        //
        // Create an instance of calendar that represing a new year date
        //
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.set(Calendar.DATE, 1);
        calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.JANUARY);
        calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2009);

        String now = df.format(today);
        String newYear = df.format(calendar.getTime());

        //
        // Using the string equals method we can compare the date.
        //
        if (now.equals(newYear)) {
            System.out.println("Happy New Year!");
        } else {
            System.out.println("Have a nive day!");
        }
    }
}

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