Compare only the time portion of two dates, ignoring the date part

Question

What\'s a good method to, given two Date objects, compare the difference between their time portion only, completely ignoring Year, Month and Day?

It\'s quite the op

Answer 1

Take a look at the Calendar class. It has support for extracting hours, minutes, and seconds from given Date's.

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(yourDateObject);
int hour = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR);
int minute = calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
int second = calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND);