You can use java.sql.Date, but it's such a thin wrapper over java.util.Date that it still requires manipulation to get just a date. Effectively, what you want is all time elements to be zero. Another unfortunate aspect is that java.sql.Date has no default ( no arg ) constructor.
You could use various divisions, but probably the most straightforward way takes advantage of the API-specified format for java.sql.Date.toString(). That is JDBC escape format yyyy-mm-dd. It's useful here because java.sql.Date.valueOf() will generate a Date using that format. Since the JDBC date escape format has no time element, you get just the date. Because java.sql.Date descends from java.util.Date, you can use it anywhere a Date is needed. Here's some example code. The last java.util.Date output is just for verification:
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import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
public class DateFromSQLDate
{
public DateFromSQLDate()
{
java.util.Date d = new java.util.Date();
java.sql.Date sd = new java.sql.Date( d.getTime() );
System.out.println( "d.getTime(): " + d.getTime() );
System.out.println( "d: " + d );
System.out.println( "sd.getTime(): " + sd.getTime() );
System.out.println( "sd: " + sd );
sd = sd.valueOf( sd.toString() );
System.out.println( "\nsd.getTime(): " + sd.getTime() );
System.out.println( "sd: " + sd );
d.setTime(sd.getTime());
System.out.println( "d.getTime(): " + d.getTime() );
System.out.println( "d: " + d );
} /* end constructor */
public static void main(String[] args)
{
new DateFromSQLDate();
}
} /* end class DateFromSQLDate */
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