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Time in milliseconds problem

Hii all,

I am trying to do the following, which is easily judged from the code


            String clientUpdate="2004-09-01 10:30:20";
            String dbUpdate = "2004-08-31 21:54:05";
            boolean isUpToDate=false;
            
            try {
                  // get date of clientupdate in UTC milliseconds
                  int year = Integer.parseInt( clientUpdate.substring(0,4) );
                  int month = Integer.parseInt( clientUpdate.substring(5,7) );
                  int day = Integer.parseInt( clientUpdate.substring(8,10) );
                  int hour = Integer.parseInt( clientUpdate.substring(11,13) );
                  int minute = Integer.parseInt( clientUpdate.substring(14,16) );
                  int second = Integer.parseInt( clientUpdate.substring(17,19) );
                  java.util.GregorianCalendar cal = new java.util.GregorianCalendar();
                  cal.set(year, month, day, hour, minute, second );
                  long nClientUpdate = cal.getTimeInMillis();

                  // get date of dbupdate in UTC milliseconds
                  year = Integer.parseInt( dbUpdate.substring(0,4) );
                  month = Integer.parseInt( dbUpdate.substring(5,7) );
                  day = Integer.parseInt( dbUpdate.substring(8,10) );
                  hour = Integer.parseInt( dbUpdate.substring(11,13) );
                  minute = Integer.parseInt( dbUpdate.substring(14,16) );
                  second = Integer.parseInt( dbUpdate.substring(17,19) );
                  cal.set(year, month, day, hour, minute, second );
                  long nDBUpdate = cal.getTimeInMillis();

                  if ( nClientUpdate >= nDBUpdate ) {
                        
                        isUpToDate = true;
                        System.out.println( "green");
                  
                  }else{
                        System.out.println( "red when: " + nClientUpdate +" < " + nDBUpdate );
                  }

            } catch(Exception ignored) {

            }


But the output is
red when: 1096619420596 < 1096660445596

I believe, i should get the output of green. B'coz my client update date is greater than dbupdate date.

How this strange behaviour??

Regards
aks
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Mick Barry
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its less than isn't it
Month start from 0
cal.set(year, month, day, hour, minute, second );

should be

cal.set(year, month-1, day, hour, minute, second );
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much easier though to use SimpleDateFormat to do your parsing
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hii sompol,

thanks for it. I really overlooked it.

Regards,
aks