posted 18 years ago
Perhaps I'm missing something here . . . could you just create a static method that takes two String objects, tries to convert them to dates, and returns the difference (in milliseconds, or whatever you want). That way you don't have to change the rest of your application, but you can do the comparison.
Again, I may be missing something. It seems that my answer is pretty simplistic, so perhaps there more to the problem than I'm reading in your post.