title: How to check if a date is after today java
body: <p>Im trying to check whether a date entered by the user is after todays date. Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
  Date enteredDate = sdf.parse(date);
  Date currentDate = new Date();
  if(enteredDate.after(currentDate)){
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Date is a variable with the user date in the format "2016/04/26". After doing some debugging i found that enteredDate and currentDate are null. Any ideas why this is?
  Thanks</p>