How to check if time in day is between two times?

Question

In my app I create an object that represents a high school class. This object holds 2 Calendar objects that represents the class\'s start and stop time each day. When a user c

Answer 1

I will here only provide the Joda-Time-related answer you asked for. Joda-Time has the advantage to offer a dedicated type for the clock time, namely LocalTime. The old java.util.Calendar-stuff does not offer this advantage hence your difficulties.

First you convert an instance of java.util.Date like follows:

Date time = ...;
DateTime dt = new DateTime(time, DateTimeZone.getDefault());
LocalTime lt = dt.toLocalTime();

Note that the conversion is always timezone dependent. Then you can compare two LocalTime instances using the inherited methods isAfter(...) or isBefore(...).