In my simple application, I am storing the timestamp into the database table programmatically by using new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis()).
Now, I have one condition, where I have to store the onClick count for a particular day, and all onClick counts into two different columns.
So for that, I need to find out onClicks for today. So how can I find out if the time onclicks occur are today? I mean for say 1st August, I want all the onclick counts in one column and all previous onClick counts into another column.
*In simple words - storing clicks for today in one column and storing clicks till now in another column, so if today expires, I want to add clicks for today with total clicks and then make the today_clicks column count to 0 and then when there is new click on next day, store it in the today_clicks column by starting it with count 1*
How can I decide that? Which Java class should I use for that?
Not sure if that is what are you after. To get start of next day you can use Calendar:
public static Date nextDayStart(Date date) {
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
return cal.getTime();
}
To get tomorrow:
Date tomorrow = nextDayStart(new Date());
To get Timestamp from Date:
Timestamp s = new Timestamp(date.getTime());
If I understand correctly, you are looking for a way to best store your data in your database. You have decided to maintain a clicks-for-today column and a clicks-until-now column. (I may be off base on this, but it wasnt completely clear from the question)
I would suggest that you dont try to manipulate the data from column to column as you have described, but instead do so by maintaining click counts per day:
date | count
------|-------
Jul 31| 10876
Aug 1| 15721
(where date is a in the db timestamp/date datatype)
How would this work?
At startup, you could then bring into memory all rows, and sum their counts to get a clicks-until-now value, if needed.
You then have special handling for today's row, where you update the appropriate context with the clicks-for-today value.
To determine whether you've passed a day threshold, you could simply:
maintain a Calendar instance for 'today' (call it todayCal)
generate a new Calendar each time you record a click (call it clickCal)
test Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR from todayCal and clickCal
if you identify a day roll, you persist the clicks-for-today in the db and initialized a new clicks-for-today.
if you are maintaining total click count in memory, you can do the math at this point.
First, I'd suggest taking a look at Joda Time.
Second, I'd take a look at Calendar:
Calendar lower = Calendar.getInstance();
lower.setTime(new Date());
lower.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
lower.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
lower.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
lower.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
Calendar upper = Calendar.getInstance();
upper.setTime(new Date());
upper.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 23);
upper.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 59);
upper.set(Calendar.SECOND, 59);
upper.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 99);
Date clickTime = new Date(timeInMillis);
if (clickTime.after(lower.getTime()) && clickTime.before(upper.getTime())) {
// Is today
}
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I've created an Android grading app to use within my classes. All the database connections and grading logic has been laid out and functions precisely as it should.
However, I am having a problem incorporating the Java Calendar class. I need to be able to limit each class to submit their answers "only" during their class time. As you can see, I will need to incorporate a series of "if statements" in order to do this.
The problem is that I don't know how to get this time that I need to verify that my student's answer submissions are only handled during their class time.
This is what I've tried:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
int hour = cal.get(Calendar.HOUR);
int minute = cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
As you can see, I am only able to get hours and minutes separate from each other. How do I get the real time? Just Hours and minutes not seconds.
In my code my set up should look like this:
int period = will be selected from a spinner object
if(period == 1 && (time>= 7:20 AM && time<= 9:00AM)) Then, go ahead and
submit your answers to online database.
if(period == 8 && (time>= 12:50PM && time<= 2:20PM)) Then, go ahead and
submit your answers to online database.
I don't know how to format this "time" object with the Calendar class.
Any help would be appreciated.
You can set hours and minutes to the calendar:
Calendar start = Calendar.getInstance();
start.set(Calendar.HOUR, 7);
start.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 20);
The same for the endDate:
Calendar end = Calendar.getInstance();
end.set(Calendar.HOUR, 9);
end.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
To check that the current datetime is in the interval:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();//now
boolean isInInterval = cal.getTime().after(start.getTime()) && cal.getTime().before(end.getTime());
Calculating the difference between two dates (java.util.Date) in terms of no. of days look like very simple and we can find different ways to do that. I used the following code to calculate the date difference:
public static long daysBetween(Calendar startDate, Calendar endDate) {
Calendar date = (Calendar) startDate.clone();
long daysBetween = 0;
while (date.before(endDate)) {
date.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
daysBetween++;
}
return daysBetween;
}
In main(), I used the following two dates :
Calendar c1 = Calendar.getInstance();
c1.set(2011, 1, 1);
Calendar c2 = Calendar.getInstance();
c2.set(2011, 1, 31);
long difference = daysBetween(c1, c2); //
But the value of the variable difference is not consistent. It is sometimes 30 and sometimes 31. So, why that might have happened.
Is there any solution to use the method results a consistent output ?
You're setting the date part of the calendars, but not the time part.
Sometimes the clock will tick between the calls to getInstance() and sometimes it won't, hence the inconsistency.
Options:
Set the time as well as the date, e.g. to midnight
Use a better date/time library - Joda Time - which has a more suitable representation (LocalDate). An important moral here is that if you can find a type which represents the exact information you have, and nothing else, that's likely to be a good fit and cause fewer complications.
Using LocalDate, you wouldn't even have to do the loop as Joda Time has good support for computing the differences between two values anyway.
LocalDate date1 = new LocalDate(2011, 1, 1);
LocalDate date2 = new LocalDate(2011, 1, 31);
Days period = Days.daysBetween(days1, days2);
int days = period.getDays();
You are only setting the year, month and day. The hours, minutes, seconds and milli-seconds are the current time (and thus different every time you run it)
I suggest you use Joda Time's LocalDate instead as it appears to does exactly what you want.
My program needs to represent this date as a java.sql.date object , but it seems that when I create a new date (using the calendar) and set it to '9999-12-31' and finally convert this java.util.date object to a java.sql.date object, this date is converted to something like '000-01-31'.
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.set(9999, 12, 31);
infinityDate = new java.sql.Date(normalizeDate(calendar.getTime()).getTime());
infinityDate should be 31-12-9999
but when my code reaches here :
if(otherDate.equals(infinityDate))
{// Do stuff}
It never goes into the if condition as the infinityDate has for some reason been changed to 31-01-000, even though otherDate is infact '31-12-9999'.
The fact that otherDate is 31-12-9999 tells me that java can represent this dates , but for some reason , when I construct it using a calendar it changes the date. (otherDate comes from a jdbc statement which fetches data from a database)
This reference date '31-12-9999' has been fixed by some client , so it cannot be changed and my program has to be able to compare some incoming date values with this.
Does anyone know why this is happening , I realize that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem may be a problem for dates after year 9999 , but I should be safe by a day.
EDIT : The Normalize date method only "normalizes the given date to midnight of that day"
private static java.util.Date normalizeDate(java.util.Date date) {
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(date);
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
date = calendar.getTime();
return date;
}
But , this issue was appearing before I was normalizing the date , I normalized it in an attempt to fix this.
Months are zero indexed. Use 11 for December, not 12. This is why you are rolling over the year.
Calendar.MONTH is zero-based. The call
calendar.set(9999, 12, 31);
sets the date to "the 31st day in the 13th month of the year 9999", which is then implicitly converted to the 1st month of the year 10000. It would result in an exception if you first called
calendar.setLenient(false);
Check hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds that are held into these 2 date objects. I believe they are different.
If your want to compare the date (year, month, day) only you should probably create your custom Comparator and use it.
Consider the following code to only determine if the time component of one Date object is before the time component of another Date object:
private boolean validStartStopTime( Date start, Date stop ) {
Calendar startCal = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar stopCal = Calendar.getInstance();
startCal.clear();
stopCal.clear();
startCal.setTime( start );
stopCal.setTime( stop );
startCal.set( Calendar.YEAR, 2011 );
stopCal.set( Calendar.YEAR, 2011 );
startCal.set( Calendar.MONTH, 1 );
stopCal.set( Calendar.MONTH, 1 );
startCal.set( Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1 );
stopCal.set( Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1 );
return startCal.before( stopCal );
}
Would this insure that time comparison is correct? Is there a better alternative (Joda is not an option)? I believe that this is equivalent to setting the Calendar objects to current date/time and manually copying over the hour, minutes, and milliseconds component. You can assume that timezone are the same.
EDIT: To clarify what I mean by comparing only the time component of a Date object. I mean that when looking specifically at the time portion, the start time is before the stop time. The date portion is ABSOLUTELY irrelevant (in that start="Jan 2 20011 10AM" and end="Jan 1 2011 11AM" is perfectly fine), if I had a choice I'd simply use something that contained just the time but a Date object is what I'm given. I'd like to not write a sequence of if-else which is why I have the approach above but I welcome a cleaner/better approach.
Your code should work fine. You could also format just the time components in a zero-based string notation and compare them lexicographically:
public static boolean timeIsBefore(Date d1, Date d2) {
DateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss.SSS");
return f.format(d1).compareTo(f.format(d2)) < 0;
}
[Edit]
This is assuming that the dates have the same timezone offset. If not you'll have to adjust them manually beforehand (or as part of this function).
There are 86,400,000 milliseconds in a day, why not just use that to figure it out?
You could just mod timeInMilliseconds with that number and compare the results.
This is a really simple request, but I am not quite sure the easiest/most efficient way of generating these two values.
I need to write a script that will check whether a given value is between two values. I am well aware of how this is done in SQL.
The way I need the values is somethign similar to the following.
Date testValue = new Date() //This represents the value we are testing
Date beginningOfDay = .... //This value would represent the date for
testValue at 12:00am
Date endOfDay = ... //This value would represent the date for
testValue at 11:59:59pm
Again, the Java Date() type may not be the best practice to do something like this. In the end I just need to generate three values that I can say
if testValue is after beginningOfDay && testValue is before endOfDay
//do logic
Personally I use the Calendar object for this. For example:
Date testDate = ??? //Replace with whatever source you are using
Calendar testDateCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
testDateCalendar.setTime(testDate);
Date today = new Date();
Calendar endOfDay = Calendar.getInstance(); //Initiates to current time
endOfDay.setTime(today);
endOfDay.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 23);
endOfDay.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 59);
endOfDay.set(Calendar.SECOND, 59);
Calendar startOfDay = Calendar.getInstance();
startOfDay.setTime(today);
startOfDay.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
startOfDay.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
startOfDay.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
if (startOfDay.before(testDateCalendar) && endOfDay.after(testDateCalendar))
{
//Whatever
} else {
//Failure
}
You can use a calendar object to do this and by the way, the way you did the bounds check in your question is wrong (your date can match the before/after dates and still be considered in range). The following shows whether a date falls on a certain day of the year. It assumes that the timezones for the dateTime to check and the day are equal and that no time adjustments took place:
Date dateTime=...
Date day=...
// This is the date we're going to do a range check on
Calendar calDateTime=Calendar.getInstance();
calDateTime.setTime(dateTime);
// This is the day from which we will get the month/day/year to which
// we will compare it
Calendar calDay=Calendar.getInstance();
calDay.setTime(day);
// Calculate the start of day time
Calendar beginningOfDay=Calendar.getInstance();
beginningOfDay.set(calDay.Get(Calendar.YEAR),
calDay.Get(Calendar.MONTH),
calDay.Get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH),
0, // hours
0, // minutes
0); // seconds
// Calculate the end of day time
Calendar endOfDay=Calendar.getInstance();
endOfDay.set(calDay.Get(Calendar.YEAR),
calDay.Get(Calendar.MONTH),
calDay.Get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH),
23, // hours
59, // minutes
59); // seconds
// Now, to test your date.
// Note: You forgot about the possibility of your test date matching either
// the beginning of the day or the end of the day. The accepted answer
// got this range check wrong, as well.
if ((beginningOfDay.before(calDateTime) && endOfDay.after(calDateTime)) ||
beginningOfDay.equals(calDateTime) || endOfDay.equals(calDateTime))
{
// Date is in range...
}
This can be further simplified to:
Date dateTime=...
Date day=...
// This is the date we're going to do a range check on
Calendar calDateTime=Calendar.getInstance();
calDateTime.setTime(dateTime);
// This is the day from which we will get the month/day/year to which
// we will compare it
Calendar calDay=Calendar.getInstance();
calDay.setTime(day);
if (calDateTime.get(YEAR)==calDay.get(YEAR) &&
calDateTime.get(MONTH)==calDay.get(MONTH) &&
calDateTime.get(DAY_OF_YEAR)==calDay.get(DAY_OF_YEAR))
{
// Date is in range
}
Here's something I've used in my own code to determine if a file was modified on a certain day. Like the other answers in this thread, I used the Calendar.
// Get modified date of the current file
// and today's date
Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar modDate = Calendar.getInstance();
Date date = new Date(file.lastModified());
modDate.setTime(date);
// Convert dates to integers
int modDay = modDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
int todayDay = today.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
if (modDay == todayDay) {
// Do stuff
}
This might be closer to what you are looking for since you only need to see if the event falls on a certain day.