java.time.LocalDate.compareTo() Method Example

Description

The java.time.LocalDate.compareTo(ChronoLocalDate other) method compares this date to another date.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.time.LocalDate.compareTo(ChronoLocalDate other) method.

public int compareTo(ChronoLocalDate other)

Parameters

other − the other date to compare to, not null.

Return Value

the comparator value, negative if less, positive if greater.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.time.LocalDate.compareTo(ChronoLocalDate other) method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.time.LocalDate;

public class LocalDateDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse("2017-02-03");
      System.out.println(date);  
      LocalDate date1 = LocalDate.parse("2017-03-03");
      System.out.println(date1);  
      System.out.println(date1.compareTo(date));  
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

2017-02-03
2017-03-03
1