Parsing Dates for Comparison

[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.

[hardwired]

Code:

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

    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

    // Get dates
    Date d1 = null;
    Date d2 = null;
    try {
        d1 = df.parse("2000-02-01");
        d2 = df.parse("2001-03-02");
    } catch(java.text.ParseException pe) {
        JptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "parse error for: " +
                                              pe.getMessage());
    }

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