Comparing two dates using Joda time

Question

I want to compare two dates, however I\'m running into trouble. 1 date is created from a java.util.date object and the other is manually crafted. The following

Answer 1

I stumbled into this question while looking for a comparison with today. Here's how you can compare a date to today :

date1.toLocalDate().isBeforeNow() // works also with isAfterNow