Java Program to Generate Date Between Given Range

//This is sample program to print all the dates between range of start and end dates

import java.util.Date;

public class Generate_Date 

{

    public static java.util.LinkedList searchBetweenDates(java.util.Date startDate, java.util.Date endDate) 

    {

        java.util.Date begin = new Date(startDate.getTime());

        java.util.LinkedList list = new java.util.LinkedList();

        list.add(new Date(begin.getTime()));

        while(begin.compareTo(endDate)<0)

        {

            begin = new Date(begin.getTime() + 86400000);

            list.add(new Date(begin.getTime()));

        }

        return list;

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception   

    {   

        java.util.Scanner input = new java.util.Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.println("Enter the Start Date: dd/mm/yyyy");

        String begin = new String();

        begin = input.nextLine();

        System.out.println("Enter the End Date: dd/mm/yyyy");

        String end = new String();

        end = input.nextLine();

        java.util.LinkedList hitList = searchBetweenDates(

        	    new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").parse(begin),

        	    new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy").parse(end));

        String[] comboDates = new String[hitList.size()];

        for(int i=0; i<hitList.size(); i++)

            comboDates[i] = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy - E").format(((java.util.Date)hitList.get(i)));

        for(int i=0; i<comboDates.length; i++)

            System.out.println(comboDates[i]);

        input.close();

    }

}