Difference in days between two dates in Java?

Question

I need to find the number of days between two dates: one is from a report and one is the current date. My snippet:

  int age=calculateDiffer         


        

Answer 1

I use this funcion:

DATEDIFF("31/01/2016", "01/03/2016") // me return 30 days

my function:

import java.util.Date;

public long DATEDIFF(String date1, String date2) {
        long MILLISECS_PER_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
        long days = 0l;
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); // "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");

        Date dateIni = null;
        Date dateFin = null;        
        try {       
            dateIni = (Date) format.parse(date1);
            dateFin = (Date) format.parse(date2);
            days = (dateFin.getTime() - dateIni.getTime())/MILLISECS_PER_DAY;                        
        } catch (Exception e) {  e.printStackTrace();  }   

        return days; 
     }