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Dear All,
I have read dateTime field into a string from mysql database and in my java I have another dateTime in string format and in same format as the mysql date time and would like to compare both to see which one is before?

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so ... what's stopping you from doing so?

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so ... what's stopping you from doing so?

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Dear Stultuske,
I am not sure how to comparte now just to do a string comparison is it or must I format them back to Date type first?

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If you want to know which date is earlier then yes, you need to convert both to Date. You can use the SimpleDateFormat class to convert/parse a string into a Date

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Dear James,
Thank you for the confirmation. Ok I will try it.

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