java.time.OffsetDateTime.compareTo() Method Example

Description

The java.time.OffsetDateTime.compareTo(OffsetDateTime other) method compares this date-time to another date-time.

Declaration

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

public int compareTo(OffsetDateTime other)

Parameters

other − the other date-time 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.OffsetDateTime.compareTo(OffsetDateTime other) method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.time.OffsetDateTime;

public class OffsetDateTimeDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      
      OffsetDateTime date = OffsetDateTime.parse("2017-02-03T12:30:30+01:00");
      System.out.println(date);  
      OffsetDateTime date1 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2017-03-03T12:30:30+01:00");
      System.out.println(date1);  
      System.out.println(date1.compareTo(date));  
   }
}

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

2017-02-03T12:30:30+01:00
2017-03-03T12:30:30+01:00
1