Extract time from Calendar Object

[jrhitokiri]

I just want to extract the time component of the calendar object for comparison to another. Is this possible?

here's my code:

try {
    String str_date="2009-10-15 12:1:00";
    DateFormat formatter =
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd k:mm:ss");
    Date date = (Date)formatter.parse(str_date); 
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.setTime(date);
    System.out.println("Today is " +date );
 
    //need to do something here to get just the time field
    //for comparing. Just the hours, minutes and seconds.
    //I want to do something like
    //if (cal.getTime() > someTimeObject )
    // do something here
} catch (java.text.ParseException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }   
 

thanks!

kind regards.
JR

[jrhitokiri]

bumping this question.. anyone want to answer this? T_T