Overview
In this tutorial, we show you how to compare dates in Java. There are 4 ways to compare two dates in Java: java.util.Date.compareTo() method, Calender.before() (Calender.after() and Calender.equals()) method, Date.before() (Date.after() and Date.equals()), LocalDate.isAfter() (LocalDate.isBefore(), LocalDate.isEqual()) method.