Check if 24 hours have passed (reading from a string)

Question

I am saving date\'s in a file in the following format as a string.

Sat Jul 21 23:31:55 EDT 2012

How can I check if 24 hours have passed? I am a

Answer 1

I am not sure if I completely understood the question - do you have two dates for comparison or do you wish to keep checking periodically if 24 hours have elapsed? If comparing two date/times, I would suggest looking at joda or perhaps date4j. Using joda, one could look into using interval between two dates:

Interval interval = new Interval(previousTime, new Instant());

where previous time would be the time you mentioned