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/* Date.java -- Wrapper around java.util.Date
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Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Classpath.
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Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
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independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
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this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
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obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
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exception statement from your version. */
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import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
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* This class is a wrapper around java.util.Date to allow the JDBC
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* driver to identify the value as a SQL Date.
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* @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
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public class Date extends java.util.Date
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* Used for parsing and formatting this date.
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private static SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
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* This is the serialization UID for this class.
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private static final long serialVersionUID = 1511598038487230103L;
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/*************************************************************************/
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* This method returns a new instance of this class by parsing a
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* date in JDBC format into a Java date.
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* @param str The string to parse.
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* @return The resulting <code>java.sql.Date</code> value.
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java.util.Date d = (java.util.Date)sdf.parseObject(str);
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return(new Date(d.getTime()));
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/*************************************************************************/
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* This method initializes a new instance of this class with the
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* specified year, month, and day.
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* @param year The year of this date minue 1900.
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* @param month The month of this date (0-11).
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* @param day The day of this date (1-31).
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Date(int year, int month, int day)
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super(year, month, day);
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/*************************************************************************/
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* This method initializes a new instance of this class with the
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* specified time value representing the number of seconds since
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* Jan 1, 1970 at 12:00 midnight GMT.
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* @param time The time value to intialize this date to.
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/*************************************************************************/
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* This method returns this date in JDBC format.
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* @return This date as a string.
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return(sdf.format(this));