In my previous example the output of getChronology() is shown below:
localDate1 -> GJChronology[UTC]
localDate2 -> ISOChronology[UTC]
That begs the question, why does the LocalDate class even care about the
chronology?
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org>wrote:
> Print out the result of getChronology() for both, and see if they are
> equal. I suspect they are different (equals depends on the chronology
> - a design flaw in Joda-Time).
> Stephen
>
>
>
> On 27 June 2012 02:51, John Hanks <jhanks9...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was surprised when I was using the equals() method of the LocalDate
> class.
> >
> > It was not behaving as I would expect.
> >
> > Take a look at the code below:
> >
> > DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormat =
> DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyyMMdd
> > HH:mm");
> > Calendar calendar = dateTimeFormat.parseDateTime("20120621
> > 09:00").toCalendar(null);
> > LocalDate localDate1 = new LocalDate(calendar);
> > LocalDate localDate2 = new LocalDate(2012,6,21);
> > System.out.println(localDate1);
> > System.out.println(localDate2);
> > System.out.println("equals(): " + localDate1.equals(localDate2));
> > System.out.println("isEqual(): " + localDate1.isEqual(localDate2));
> >
> >
> > The output is:
> >
> > 2012-06-21
> > 2012-06-21
> > equals(): false
> > isEqual(): true
> >
> >
> > Why is the equals method comparison false.
> >
> > Is this not a Joda bug?
> >
> > P.S. I'm using Joda 2.1
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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