Manipulation Date Time In RMS

[aan isnaini]

Dear All,
How to manipulation date time format in RMS?
i mean, i would like to save Date Time format into RMS then afteward in other command action will be open the Record store and compare with current date from system.
1. How to save DateTime format in RMS?
2. How to Read DateTime format saved in RMS?
3. How to compare DateTime format (readed from RMS) with current date time( from device system).

Thank You

[Eduardo Marques]

You can serialize/unserialize dates by using a conversion to "long" ie

1. Use "long l = dateObj.getTime();" to extract a "long" from a Date object.
2. Use "long longVar= ... ; Date d = new Date(longVar);" to build a Date object from a "long" variable.