com.autonomy.utilities
Class DateManager

java.lang.Object
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public class DateManager

extends java.lang.Object

This class takes a java Calendar object as input, and outputs the day, month and year so that

DateManager dm = new DateManager( Calendar.getInstance() );
out.println( dm.getYear() + "/" + dm.getMonth() + "/" + dm.getDay() );


will return a string of the form:

YYYY/MM/DD

regardless of which of the two getYear/getMonth/getDay methods are used This is done to cache the many on-the-fly String<->int conversions the search panes do on these dates.

Constructor Summary

DateManager(java.util.Calendar cInput)
Constuctor.

Method Summary

int	getDay() Return the day of month for this calendar as an int
java.lang.String	getDay(int nLength) return the day of the month for this calendar as a string
int	getMonth() Return the month of year for this calendar as an int
java.lang.String	getMonth(int nLength) return the day of the month for this calendar as a string
int	getYear() Return the year for this calendar as an int
java.lang.String	getYear(int nLength) return the year for this calendar as a string

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DateManager

public DateManager(java.util.Calendar cInput)

Constuctor.

Parameters:

cInput - Calendar instance from which date information is to be extracted

Method Detail

getDay

public java.lang.String getDay(int nLength)

return the day of the month for this calendar as a string

Parameters:

nLength - length of returned String, which will be filled with leading zeros if it is too short. For example, on the 1st of the month:

dm.getDay(2);

will return 01.

Returns:

String value of day

getMonth

public java.lang.String getMonth(int nLength)

return the day of the month for this calendar as a string

Parameters:

nLength - length of returned String, which will be filled with leading zeros if it is too short. For example, if the month is January:

dm.getMonth(2);

will return 01.

Returns:

String value of month, as a number between 1 and 12

getYear

public java.lang.String getYear(int nLength)

return the year for this calendar as a string

Parameters:

nLength - length of returned String, which will be filled with leading zeros if it is too short. For example, if the year is 2002:

dm.getYear(4);

will return 2002. Note that :

dm.getYear(2);

will also return 2002, ie the return value cannot be trimmed.

Returns:

String value of year

getDay

public int getDay()

Return the day of month for this calendar as an int

getMonth

public int getMonth()

Return the month of year for this calendar as an int

getYear

public int getYear()

Return the year for this calendar as an int