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java Compare dates in string format

Tags: Java, 1.5
Hi,
  I have 2 strings which contain dates in the same format shown below

s1="01/01/2008"
s2="01/02/2008"

I would like to do a date comparison on those strings so I guess I will have to convert them to some sort of date format and compare them. What is the correct and optimized way of doing this? I do not care about the time part just dates is good enough.

Curently I am doing this and it does not give me the correct date:

java.text.SimpleDateFormat sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("mm/dd/yyyy");
Date beginDate = sdf.parse("12/01/2007");
and

System.out.println(beginDate.toString());
prints Jan 01 2007

Thanks in advance.

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Question Asked By: chintaps
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