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:

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Answer 1

If you're looking for a solution that returns proper number or days between e.g. 11/30/2014 23:59 and 12/01/2014 00:01 here's solution using Joda Time.

private int getDayDifference(long past, long current) {
    DateTime currentDate = new DateTime(current);
    DateTime pastDate = new DateTime(past);
    return currentDate.getDayOfYear() - pastDate.getDayOfYear();
} 

This implementation will return 1 as a difference in days. Most of the solutions posted here calculate difference in milliseconds between two dates. It means that 0 would be returned because there's only 2 minutes difference between these two dates.

Answer 2

Hundred lines of code for this basic function???

Just a simple method:

protected static int calculateDayDifference(Date dateAfter, Date dateBefore){
    return (int)(dateAfter.getTime()-dateBefore.getTime())/(1000 * 60 * 60 * 24); 
    // MILLIS_IN_DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
}

Answer 3

public static int getDifferenceIndays(long timestamp1, long timestamp2) {
    final int SECONDS = 60;
    final int MINUTES = 60;
    final int HOURS = 24;
    final int MILLIES = 1000;
    long temp;
    if (timestamp1 < timestamp2) {
        temp = timestamp1;
        timestamp1 = timestamp2;
        timestamp2 = temp;
    }
    Calendar startDate = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getDefault());
    Calendar endDate = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getDefault());
    endDate.setTimeInMillis(timestamp1);
    startDate.setTimeInMillis(timestamp2);
    if ((timestamp1 - timestamp2) < 1 * HOURS * MINUTES * SECONDS * MILLIES) {
        int day1 = endDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        int day2 = startDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        if (day1 == day2) {
            return 0;
        } else {
            return 1;
        }
    }
    int diffDays = 0;
    startDate.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, diffDays);
    while (startDate.before(endDate)) {
        startDate.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
        diffDays++;
    }
    return diffDays;
}

Answer 4

It depends on what you define as the difference. To compare two dates at midnight you can do.

long day1 = ...; // in milliseconds.
long day2 = ...; // in milliseconds.
long days = (day2 - day1) / 86400000;

Answer 5

java.time

In Java 8 and later, use the java.time framework (Tutorial).

Duration

The Duration class represents a span of time as a number of seconds plus a fractional second. It can count days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

ZonedDateTime now = ZonedDateTime.now();
ZonedDateTime oldDate = now.minusDays(1).minusMinutes(10);
Duration duration = Duration.between(oldDate, now);
System.out.println(duration.toDays());

ChronoUnit

If all you need is the number of days, alternatively you can use the ChronoUnit enum. Notice the calculation methods return a long rather than int.

long days = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between( then, now );

Answer 6

I would suggest you use the excellent Joda Time library instead of the flawed java.util.Date and friends. You could simply write

import java.util.Date;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.Days;

Date past = new Date(110, 5, 20); // June 20th, 2010
Date today = new Date(110, 6, 24); // July 24th 
int days = Days.daysBetween(new DateTime(past), new DateTime(today)).getDays(); // => 34