org.sourceforge.jemm.types
Class JemmDate

java.lang.Object
  org.sourceforge.jemm.types.JemmDate

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public final class JemmDate
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.io.Serializable

JemmDate is an immutable date class. This allows it to be stored as a valuetype like Integer

Author:

Rory Graves

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

JemmDate(java.util.Date date)
Create a new JemmDate representing the same date/time as the given java.util.Date.

JemmDate(long timestamp)
Create a new JemmDate given the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.Object obj)
java.util.Date	getAsDate() Return this date value as a Date.
java.sql.Date	getAsSqlDate() Return this date value as an sql Date.
long	getTime() Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this Date object.
int	hashCode()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

JemmDate

public JemmDate(java.util.Date date)

Create a new JemmDate representing the same date/time as the given java.util.Date.

Parameters:

date - The date to initialise from.

JemmDate

public JemmDate(long timestamp)

Create a new JemmDate given the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.

Parameters:

timestamp - the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT of this time.

Method Detail

getAsDate

public java.util.Date getAsDate()

Return this date value as a Date.

Returns:

The represented date value as a java.util.Date

getAsSqlDate

public java.sql.Date getAsSqlDate()

Return this date value as an sql Date.

Returns:

The represented date value as a java.sql.Date

getTime

public long getTime()

Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this Date object.

Returns:

the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT represented by this date.

See Also:

Date.getTime()

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class java.lang.Object

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object