java.time.OffsetDateTime.compareTo() Method Example

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Description

The java.time.OffsetDateTime.compareTo(OffsetDateTime other) method compares this date-time to another date-time.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.time.OffsetDateTime.compareTo(OffsetDateTime other) method.

 public int compareTo(OffsetDateTime other) 

Parameters

other − the other date-time to compare to, not null.

Return Value

the comparator value, negative if less, positive if greater.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.time.OffsetDateTime.compareTo(OffsetDateTime other) method.

 package com.tutorialspoint; import java.time.OffsetDateTime; public class OffsetDateTimeDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { OffsetDateTime date = OffsetDateTime.parse("2017-02-03T12:30:30+01:00"); System.out.println(date); OffsetDateTime date1 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2017-03-03T12:30:30+01:00"); System.out.println(date1); System.out.println(date1.compareTo(date)); } } 

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

 2017-02-03T12:30:30+01:00 2017-03-03T12:30:30+01:00 1