java - JodaTime - Check if LocalTime is after now and now before another LocalTime -

i trying check if currenttime after startlocaltime , before endlocaltime start time plus 11 hours. works fine if start time 11:00 (end time 22:00). when try compare start time of 16:00 , end time of 03:00, currenttime.isbefore(endtime) never logged, should be.

localtime currenttime = localtime.now(); //21:14 localtime starttime = new localtime( 16, 00, 0, 0); localtime endtime = starttime.plushours(11); //03:00 midnight      if(currenttime.isafter(starttime)){         log.v("test", "after starttime");     }      if(currenttime.isbefore(endtime)){         log.v("test", "before endtime");     } 

any ideas how solve problem?

basically need check whether starttime , endtime inverted (i.e. if endtime before starttime). if is, must "night-time" interval, , should treat if other way round, , invert result.

public boolean iswithininterval(localtime start, localtime end, localtime time) {     if (start.isafter(end)) {         return !iswithininterval(end, start, time);     }     // assumes want inclusive start , exclusive end point.     return start.compareto(time) <= 0 &&            time.compareto(end) < 0; } 

now oddity here shown, start time inclusive , end time exclusive - whereas if invert result (and arguments) have inclusive end time , exclusive start time. might want handle cases explicitly instead:

public boolean iswithininterval(localtime start, localtime end, localtime time) {     if (start.isafter(end)) {         // return true if time after (or at) start, *or* it's before end         return time.compareto(start) >= 0 ||                time.compareto(end) < 0;     } else {         return start.compareto(time) <= 0 &&                time.compareto(end) < 0;     } } 

(how choose target , argument use compareto you, of course. there multiple ways of writing same code.)

short complete example:

import org.joda.time.localtime;  public class test {     public static void main(string[] args) {         localtime morning = new localtime(6, 0, 0);         localtime evening = new localtime(18, 0, 0);         localtime noon = new localtime(12, 0, 0);         localtime midnight = new localtime(0, 0, 0);         system.out.println(iswithininterval(morning, evening, noon)); // true         system.out.println(             iswithininterval(morning, evening, midnight)); // false         system.out.println(             iswithininterval(evening, morning, noon)); // false         system.out.println(             iswithininterval(evening, morning, midnight)); // true     }      public static boolean iswithininterval(localtime start,                                             localtime end,                                            localtime time) {         if (start.isafter(end)) {             // return true if time after (or at) start,             // *or* it's before end             return time.compareto(start) >= 0 ||                 time.compareto(end) < 0;         } else {             return start.compareto(time) <= 0 &&                 time.compareto(end) < 0;         }     } }