java.time.LocalDateTime.compareTo() Method Example

Description

The java.time.LocalDateTime.compareTo(ChronoLocalDateTime<?> other) method compares this date-time to another date-time.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.time.LocalDateTime.compareTo(ChronoLocalDateTime<?> other) method.

public int compareTo(ChronoLocalDateTime<?> 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.LocalDateTime.compareTo(ChronoLocalDateTime<?> other) method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.time.LocalDateTime;

public class LocalDateTimeDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
 LocalDateTime date = LocalDateTime.parse("2017-02-03T12:30:30");
      System.out.println(date);  
      LocalDateTime date1 = LocalDateTime.parse("2017-03-03T12:30:30");
      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
2017-03-03T12:30:30
1