RE: Comparing dates??

What's probably happening is that b.getSchedPickUpDateCal() is returning 2005 
July 13 00:00:00.000 and Calendar.getInstance() is returning 2005 July 13 
11:28:33.179, which is obviously "after". (Do some debugging to confirm this is 
correct.) To normalize your Calendar so its time portion is all zeros:

today.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
today.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);

(Don't use the Calendar.HOUR constant or your code will work in the morning but 
not in the afternoon. Took me a while to figure that one out!)

PC2

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From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
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Sent: July 13, 2005 11:30
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Comparing dates??

Hello all,
This might seem like a noob question, but I'm trying to compare two dates and 
it's not working like I expect.
In my JSP I have:
                java.util.Calendar today = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
                if ((today.after(b.getSchedPickUpDateCal())) && 
(b.getSchedPickUpDateCal()!=null)){

Where b.getSchedPickUpDateCal returns the date of the scheduled pickup. 
What's happening is that if the date of the pickup and the current date are the 
same, this today.after() is returning true?  I have no idea what's going on, 
but that's what it is doing.  Am I doing this right?