Compare two dates in different format.

Hi
I want to compare two dates....one of which is in the timeStamp format ("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
and the other is in java.util.Date i.e Tue Oct 11 10:22:47 GMT+05:30 2005
Do I have to tokenise and then compare them.Is there any better approach?
I want to find out which is greater/smaller one.
Pls help.
Regards,
Sandip.

I would convert both to Date and compare them. To convert String to Date check java.text.SimpleDateFormat and its parse(...) method.
HTH
Mike

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