protected DateTerm(int comparison,
    Date date) 
{
        super();
        this.comparison = comparison;
        this.date = date;
}

 public boolean equals(Object other) 
{
        if (other == this) return true;
        if (other instanceof DateTerm == false) return false;
        final DateTerm term = (DateTerm) other;
        return this.comparison == term.comparison && this.date.equals(term.date);
}

 public int getComparison() 
{
        return comparison;
}

 public Date getDate() 
{
        return date;
}

 public int hashCode() 
{
        return date.hashCode();
}

 protected boolean match(Date match) 
{
        long matchTime = match.getTime();
        long mytime = date.getTime();
        switch (comparison) {
        case EQ:
            return matchTime == mytime;
        case NE:
            return matchTime != mytime;
        case LE:
            return matchTime < = mytime;
        case LT:
            return matchTime <  mytime;
        case GT:
            return matchTime  > mytime;
        case GE:
            return matchTime  >= mytime;
        default:
            return false;
        }
}