Date object to Calendar [Java]

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What you could do is creating an instance of a GregorianCalendar and then set the Date as a start time:

Date date;
Calendar myCal = new GregorianCalendar();
myCal.setTime(date);

However, another approach is to not use Date at all. You could use an approach like this:

private Calendar startTime;
private long duration;
private long startNanos;   //Nano-second precision, could be less precise
...
this.startTime = Calendar.getInstance();
this.duration = 0;
this.startNanos = System.nanoTime();

public void setEndTime() {
        this.duration = System.nanoTime() - this.startNanos;
}

public Calendar getStartTime() {
        return this.startTime;
}

public long getDuration() {
        return this.duration;
}

In this way you can access both the start time and get the duration from start to stop. The precision is up to you of course.

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