I don't know how to impliment this

Question

I am basically making a calender, and I am stuck at this following part:
supplied variables:
private int day;
private int month;
private int year;
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+ before(date:Date):boolean || Returns true if this date is before date; false otherwise.
I don't understand if i am suppose to make a comparison to whetehr or not (date is compared to the supplied date).
ex: if(this.day == date.day)
will this work?
Edited by: NewInJava on May 16, 2009 7:24 AM

Answer 1

njb7ty wrote:
No it will not. use Date's getTime() function to get the time in milliseconds. subtract the two dates as milliseconds to determine if one comes before the other.I presume the OP is using (or is supposed to use) his/her own Date class. If not, java.util.Date has a compareTo(...) method which can be used in the before(...) method, no use in implementing it yourself.