How to compare two Dates without the time portion?

Question

I would like to have a compareTo method that ignores the time portion of a java.util.Date. I guess there are a number of ways to solve this. What's the simplest way?

Answer 1

Apache commons-lang is almost ubiquitous. 

 (DateUtils.isSameDay(date1, date2)) {

    // it's same

} else if (date1.before(date2)) {

   // it's before

} else {

   // it's after

}hat about this?