I haven't tried this but my guess is that because DateMidnight.minus(long)
returns a DateMidnight, you'll always get "midnight". Maybe try...
new DateMidnight().toDateTime().minusSeconds(1)
Steve
2009/12/3 Jean Seurin <jean.eastc...@gmail.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Joda and try to get it adopted in our application.
> Legacy code use to set the Date with time being at the last second of a
> day,
> to ensure a consistant behavior when comparing "date only" time with this
> date.
>
> To make things clearer, legacy code is crippled with things like that:
>
> Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
> SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy")
> cal.setTime(sdf.parse("01/01/2009"));
> cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 23);
> cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 59);
> cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 59);
>
> i'd like to offer a unique function to replace that, using Joda.
>
> I've tried to use the minus(..) methods but to no avail.
> Here's what I've tried:
>
> new DateMidnight(2009,1,2).minus(1000);
>
> Looking at the Java doc, I understand it should be exactly equal to
> cal.getTime().
> However the getDate() methods return January 1st, at Midnight.
>
> Minus doesn't seem to do what it is supposed to.
>
> Obviously I misused it.
>
> Can any one explain me how to work it, and more generally maybe, the
> fastest
> way to get the last second before midnight DateTime of a given day?
>
> rgds,
> Jean
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