Splitting a date-range - can it be improved somehow?

I've created a method to split a date range into a collection of date-arrays. These arrays consist of two timestamps.

Example:

System.out.println("");
        System.out.println("*****************************");
        System.out.println("Split 2.1.2004 to 26.3.2004: ");
        for (DateTime[] date : TimeSplitter.splitDateIntoMonths(new DateTime(2004, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0).toDate(),
                new DateTime(2004, 3, 26, 0, 0, 0, 0).toDate())) {

            System.out.println(date[0] + " and " + date[1]);

        }

        System.out.println("");
        System.out.println("*****************************");
        System.out.println("Split 1.1.2000 to 31.12.2005: ");
        for (DateTime[] date : TimeSplitter.splitDateIntoMonths(new DateTime(2000, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0).toDate(),
                new DateTime(2005, 12, 31, 0, 0, 0, 0).toDate())) {

            System.out.println(date[0] + " and " + date[1]);

        }

Results into:

```
*****
Split 2.1.2004 to 26.3.2004:
2004-01-02T00:00:00.000+01:00 and 2004-01-31T00:00:00.000+01:00
2004-02-01T00:00:00.000+01:00 and 2004-02-29T00:00:00.000+01:00
2004-03-01T00:00:00.000+01:00 and 2004-03-26T00:00:00.000+01:00

*****
Split 1.1.2000 to 31.12.2005:
2000-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00 and 2000-01-31T00:00:00.000+01:00
2000-02-01T00:00:00.000+01:00 and 2000-02-29T00:00:00.000+01:00
2000-03-01T00:00:00.000+01:00 and 2000-03-31T00:00:00.000+02:00
2000-04-01T00:00:00.000+02:00 and 2000-04-30T00:00:00.000+02:00
2000-05-01T00:00:00.000+02:00 and 2000-05-31T00:00:00.000+02:00
2000-06-01T00:00:00.000+02:00 and 2000-06-30T00:00:00.000+02:00
2000-07-01T00:00:00.000+02:00 and 2000-07-31T00:00:00.000+02:00
2000-08-01T00:00:00.000+02:00 and 2000-08-31T00:00:00.000+02:00
2000-09-01T00:00:00.000+02:00 and 2000-09-30T00:00:00.000+02:00
2000-10-01T00:00:00.000+02:00 and 2000-10-31T00:00:00.000+01:00
2000-11-01T00:00:00.000+01:00 and 2000-11-30T00:00:00.000+01:00
2000-12-01T00:00:0

Looks pretty nice overall.

Small bits:

• I would create a special type for the DateTime[] (as it can have only exactly 2 DateTimes), or reuse an existing one. In joda's case Interval.

(If you use Interval, you can also provide a convienence static method that accepts an Interval)

• Use a access modifier (public) on your method

• Replace the compareTo with better readable isBefore() and isAfter() and equals() so the reader does not need to know the magic compare values.

• Your javadoc has an mm-dd-YYYY date format. Your example has dd.mm.YYYY. I would stick to YYYY-mm-dd

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