Java 8: Difference between two LocalDateTime in multiple units

Question

I am trying to calculate the difference between two LocalDateTime.

The output needs to be of the format y years m months d days h hours m minutes

Answer 1

I found the best way to do this is with ChronoUnit.

long minutes = ChronoUnit.MINUTES.between(fromDate, toDate);
long hours = ChronoUnit.HOURS.between(fromDate, toDate);

Additional documentation is here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/datetime/iso/period.html