The other thing you could try is to use new LocalDate() and so remove the
time aspect completely.
2009/12/3 Stephen Cresswell <[email protected]>
> I haven't tried this but my guess is that because DateMidnight.minus(long)
> returns a DateMidnight, you'll always get "midnight". Maybe try...
>
> new DateMidnight().toDateTime().minusSeconds(1)
>
> Steve
>
> 2009/12/3 Jean Seurin <[email protected]>
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to Joda and try to get it adopted in our application.
>> Legacy code use to set the Date with time being at the last second of a
>> day,
>> to ensure a consistant behavior when comparing "date only" time with this
>> date.
>>
>> To make things clearer, legacy code is crippled with things like that:
>>
>> Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
>> SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy")
>> cal.setTime(sdf.parse("01/01/2009"));
>> cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 23);
>> cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 59);
>> cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 59);
>>
>> i'd like to offer a unique function to replace that, using Joda.
>>
>> I've tried to use the minus(..) methods but to no avail.
>> Here's what I've tried:
>>
>> new DateMidnight(2009,1,2).minus(1000);
>>
>> Looking at the Java doc, I understand it should be exactly equal to
>> cal.getTime().
>> However the getDate() methods return January 1st, at Midnight.
>>
>> Minus doesn't seem to do what it is supposed to.
>>
>> Obviously I misused it.
>>
>> Can any one explain me how to work it, and more generally maybe, the
>> fastest
>> way to get the last second before midnight DateTime of a given day?
>>
>> rgds,
>> Jean
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