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Hi,

How do I convert from java.sql.Date to GregorianCalendar?

Thanks,
Tom Tempelaere

TT (Tom Tempelaere) wrote:
> How do I convert from java.sql.Date to GregorianCalendar?

Calendar.setTime( Date );

Just an old weird API name to confuse you.

-Paul

"P.Hill" <> wrote in message
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> TT (Tom Tempelaere) wrote:
> > How do I convert from java.sql.Date to GregorianCalendar?
>
> Calendar.setTime( Date );
>
> Just an old weird API name to confuse you.
>
> -Paul

So I should construct default GregorianCalendar, and then call setTime?

Date dt = /*...*/;
GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar();
gc.setTime( dt.getTime() );

I should probably put this in a conversion function.

Tom.

"P.Hill" <> wrote in message
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> TT (Tom Tempelaere) wrote:
> > How do I convert from java.sql.Date to GregorianCalendar?
>
> Calendar.setTime( Date );
>
> Just an old weird API name to confuse you.
>
> -Paul


I what date format would you supply dates to a client (in a client/server
model)? Calendar or Date?

Tom.

"P.Hill" <> wrote in message
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> TT (Tom Tempelaere) wrote:
> > How do I convert from java.sql.Date to GregorianCalendar?
>
> Calendar.setTime( Date );
>
> Just an old weird API name to confuse you.
>
> -Paul


Does this work with TimeStamp (so that it doesn't lose the nano's)?

Tom.

TT (Tom Tempelaere) wrote:
> "P.Hill" <> wrote in message
>>
>>Calendar.setTime( Date );
>>
> So I should construct default GregorianCalendar, and then call setTime?
>
> Date dt = /*...*/;
> GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar();
> gc.setTime( dt.getTime() );
>

You should probabely read the API docs, or at least read the message to
which you are replying.

gc.setTime takes a ___Date___ not a millisecond time value.

If you have this thing that know about putting together and taking apart
dates then to set it to a new date you need to be able to push
some token that presents a moment in time into it. That is
what "setTime( Date date )" is for.

-Paul

TT (Tom Tempelaere) wrote:

> I what date format would you supply dates to a client (in a client/server
> model)? Calendar or Date?

If you are NOT dealing with issues of displaying time in timezone other
than that of the client, and you just need to display a time in the timezone of
the user then I would use the much more compact binary representation of date
and time, the java.util.Date.

A Calendar is a variation of a strategy pattern, it is the thing that
contains the algorthms for taking day 28002 (or whatever the internal
value for a day it) and changing it into something with Year-Month-Day
components. It is very large compared to a Date.

I would suggest you also look into SimpleDateFormat which takes
a date and makes a String. This is usually what you'll need in
a client application.

-Paul

TT (Tom Tempelaere) wrote:

> Does this work with TimeStamp (so that it doesn't lose the nano's)?

What do you mean, does it work?
I think you need to learn to understand objects and the docs for those
objects.

Try:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/

Can you find some method that allows you to send a TimeStamp into
a calendar?
Can you find any discussion of nanoseconds in Calendar or DateFormat?
Are you really interested in making a String out of a timestamp?
Why? What are you going to do with it?

-Paul

TT (Tom Tempelaere) wrote:
> I what date format would you supply dates to a client (in a client/server
> model)? Calendar or Date?

As integer timestamps, where 0 == 1970-01-01 00:00H GMT. Probably
amended with a timezone identification of the place of origin, solely to
be used for display purposes, but never ever a timezone-relative date value.

/Thomas

Thomas Weidenfeller wrote:

> TT (Tom Tempelaere) wrote:
>> I what date format would you supply dates to a client
>
> As integer timestamps, where 0 == 1970-01-01 00:00H GMT.

Which is what a java.util.Date is counting by internally.

> Probably
> amended with a timezone identification of the place of origin, solely to
> be used for display purposes, but never ever a timezone-relative date
> value.

Tom (the OP), If you need TZ information, you could build yourself
and object that is just a java.util.Date and a appropriate TZ ID as described
by Tom W.

If you expect the user to display all times in the users TZ -- because either
everything happens in one TZ or the client local TZ is the logical choice --
just talk with the Date object. JDBC will put dates into DBs appropriately,
DateFormat will create strings for you. If you need to do you own
calendar calculations, then use a Gregorian Calendar.

-Paul