Time and Date in Java

[java_fun2007]

hello,

I want to ask the user to enter a date and time that he want. I don't know how to do that??

I just know how to set any value I want of a date or time, but you know I can't do the same when asking the user to enter.
how can I ask the user to enter any value he wants? please give me a coding example I don't understand java well.
I'm a newbie the only thing I know about time and date is this:

Thanks

Quote:

import java.util.*;
import java.sql.Time;
class Datess
{

public static void main(String s[])
{
Date d=new Date();
System.out.println(d) ;

Calendar c=new GregorianCalendar(1985,9,15);
Date d1=c.getTime();
System.out.println(d1) ;
c.set(2007,9,1);
Date d2=c.getTime();
System.out.println(d2) ;

Time t=new Time(12,50,0);
System.out.println(t) ;}

[JavaBean]

You can ask the user to enter the date in a predefined format. Then you can palce it into a String and pass it to your GregorianCalendar calls as you show in your code block.

Here is how you can get a String from the user via console:

Code:

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String input = in.readLine();

If your application has a GUI, you can also use following method:

Code:

ans = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please enter date below:");

[java_fun2007]

thanks for replaying, do you mean like this?

Code:

System.out.println("Enter a date: ");
String d1;
d1 = Stdin.readLine();
Calendar g=new GregorianCalendar(d1);
Date d11=g.getTime();
System.out.println(d11) ;

it doesn't work

[JavaBean]

Code:

Calendar c=new GregorianCalendar(1985,9,15);

As far as i see from the above code you have , you need to send year, month and day separately to the constructor. To do that you will need to use substring() method of String class to divide the user input into year, month and day.

Check javadoc of String for details of using substring method.

[java_fun2007]

Thank you very much JavaBean I got it now !