Please Help, problem in Excel Date.

Question

Hi,
Currently, I am having a JBDC-ODBC connecting to an Excel file, it will read a number of data from the file and one of them is the date (formatted to month/day/year using format cell in Excel). As I need to compared the date entered in Excel with the current date, I had tried (rs.getString("Date").equalsIgnoreCase(date)) ,and converting the current date to String or Integer before comparing with the Excel data but to no avail. Hence, greatly appreciate that someone can provide me with some pointers in comparing the Excel data with the current date (using getTime()).
In addition, why can't I insert data into another sheet using the following (there is no problem in inserting into the same sheet I am reading data from):
a)     stmt.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO [sheet1$] (Data1) VALUES ('data1')");
OR
b)          uprs.moveToInsertRow();
          uprs.updateString("Data1",data1);
          uprs.insertRow();
All suggestions and advises are greatly appreciate and welcomed. Thks

Answer 1

I would create a Calendar object from the string you read from the Excel file. do this by creating string tokens from the result of rs.getString("Date") to represent your month day year. Then create another calendar object from your date object (or convert it or whatever) and then compare those two. Heres my code:
    Calendar deliveryDate = Calendar.getInstance();
    StringTokenizer tokens;
    int day, month, year;
    tokens = new StringTokenizer(excelDateString, "/", false);
    month = new Integer(tokens.nextToken()).intValue();
    day = new Integer(tokens.nextToken()).intValue();
    year = new Integer(tokens.nextToken()).intValue();
    deliveryDate.set(year, month, day);Re the second question, no idea sorry.
-tobes