Removing time from a Date object?

You can remove the time part from java.util.Date by setting the hour, minute, second and millisecond values to zero.

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateUtil {

    public static Date removeTime(Date date) {
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setTime(date);
        cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
        cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
        cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
        return cal.getTime();
    }

}