Groovy Groundhogs
February 2, 2009 5 Comments
So the groundhog saw his shadow today, implying six more weeks of Winter. Let’s settle this nonsense once and for all.
def cal = Calendar.instance cal.set(2009,Calendar.FEBRUARY,2) def ghday = cal.time cal.set(2009,Calendar.MARCH,21) def spring = cal.time def days = (ghday..spring).size() println "Between Feb 2 and Mar 21, there are $days days"
The output is
Between Feb 2 and Mar 21, there are 48 days
In other words, there are six weeks and six days between Groundhog Day and the first day of Spring. So we’re already going to have an early Spring. 🙂
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nice tips.
btw, you should try joda-time. it is very nice to play with date.
Yes, I’m familiar with joda time, but for something this simple it was easy enough to use the regular Calendar class.
lol! And I learned something about date ranges, too. Thanks!
i am interested with this date range
can you tell me what kind of object that has “range” features .. I tought it was only applied to Integer but now you showed us that it can be applied to java.util.Date object. that’s amazing.
I live in the southern hemisphere, so it’s summer here, but I liked how you played with calendars anyway…