THE PACKAGE JAVA.UTIL

java.util.Date

21.3

21.3.23

public long getTime()

This method returns the time represented by this

Date

 object, represented as the

distance, measured in milliseconds, of that time from the epoch (00:00:00 GMT

on January 1, 1970).

21.3.24

public void setTime(long time)

This

Date

 object is modified so that it represents a point in time that is

time

 milli 

seconds after the epoch (00:00:00 GMT on January 1, 1970).

21.3.25

public boolean before(Date when)

The result is

true

 if and only if the instant represented by this

Date

 object is

strictly earlier than the instant represented by

when

.

21.3.26

public boolean after(Date when)

The result is

true

 if and only if the instant represented by this

Date

 object is

strictly later than the instant represented by

when

.

21.3.27

public String toLocaleString()

This

Date

 object is converted to a

String

 of an implementation dependent form.

The general intent is that the form should be familiar to the user of the Java appli 

cation, wherever it may happen to be running. The intent is comparable to that of

the

%c

 format supported by the

strftime

 function of ISO C.

See also methods

toString

 ( 21.3.7) and

toGMTString

 ( 21.3.28).

21.3.28

public String toGMTString()

This

Date

 object is converted to a

String

 of length 23 or 24 of the form:

"d mon yyyy hh:mm:ss GMT"

where:

d

 is the day of the month (

1

 through

31

), as one or two decimal digits.

mon

 is the month (

Jan

,

Feb

,

Mar

,

Apr

,

May

,

Jun

,

Jul

,

Aug

,

Sep

,

Oct

,

Nov

,

Dec

).

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