Java calculate days in year, or between two dates

Question

Is there a method in any native Java class to calculate how many days were/will be in a specific year? As in, was it a Leap year (366 days) or a normal year (365 days)?

Answer 1

Another way to do it is to ask the Calendar class for the actual maximum days in a given year:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(new Date());

int numOfDays = cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
System.out.println(numOfDays);

This will return 366 for a bisestile year, 365 for a normal one.

Note, I used getActualMaximum instead of getMaximum, which will always returns 366.