[Rageagainst20]

Code:

private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                         

        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        
        // Get Date 1     
        try {
                Date d1 = df.parse("2000-02-01");
        } catch(java.text.ParseException pe) {
                 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Your parse got PWNT");
        }
        
        // Get Date 2
        try {
               Date d2 = df.parse("2001-03-02");
        } catch(java.text.ParseException pe) {
                 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Your parse got PWNT");
        }


    String relation;
    if (d1.equals(d2))
      relation = "the same date as";
    else if (d1.before(d2))
      relation = "before";
    else
      relation = "after";
    System.out.println(d1 + " is " + relation + ' ' + d2);
  
    }

I am trying to comapre then display then in a text box using Try but it cannot read the varaibles because the operatin is outside the try is there anyway around this or a different way of doing this?

Thanks.