21.3

java.util.Date

THE PACKAGE JAVA.UTIL

21.3 The Class

java.util.Date

The class

Date

 provides a system independent abstraction of dates and times, to a

millisecond precision. Dates may be constructed from a year, month, date (day of

month), hour, minute, and second; those six components and the day of the week,

may be extracted; and dates may be compared and converted to a readable string.

public class Date {

public Date();

public Date(long time);

public Date(int year, int month, int date);

public Date(int year, int month, int date,

int hours, int minutes);

public Date(int year, int month, int date,

int hours, int minutes, int seconds);

public Date(String s) throws IllegalArgumentException;

public String toString();

public boolean equals(Object obj);

public int hashCode();

public int getYear();

public void setYear(int year);

public int getMonth();

public void setMonth(int month);

public int getDate();

public void setDate(int date);

public int getDay();

public int getHours();

public void setHours(int hours);

public int getMinutes();

public void setMinutes(int minutes);

public int getSeconds();

public void setSeconds(int seconds);

public long getTime();

public void setTime(long time);

public boolean before(Date when);

public boolean after(Date when);

public String toLocaleString();

public String toGMTString();

public int getTimezoneOffset();

public static long UTC(int year, int month, int date,

int hours, int minutes, int seconds);

public static long parse(String s)

throws IllegalArgumentException;

}

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