how to get a list of dates between two dates in java

Question

I want a list of dates between start date and end date.

The result should be a list of all dates including the start and end date.

Answer 1

Here is my method for getting dates between two dates, including / w.o. including business days. It also takes source and desired date format as parameter.

public static List<String> getAllDatesBetweenTwoDates(String stdate,String enddate,String givenformat,String resultformat,boolean onlybunessdays) throws ParseException{
        DateFormat sdf;
        DateFormat sdf1;
        List<Date> dates = new ArrayList<Date>();
        List<String> dateList = new ArrayList<String>();
          SimpleDateFormat checkformat = new SimpleDateFormat(resultformat); 
          checkformat.applyPattern("EEE");  // to get Day of week
        try{
            sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(givenformat);
            sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat(resultformat);
            stdate=sdf1.format(sdf.parse(stdate));
            enddate=sdf1.format(sdf.parse(enddate));

            Date  startDate = (Date)sdf1.parse( stdate); 
            Date  endDate = (Date)sdf1.parse( enddate);
            long interval = 24*1000 * 60 * 60; // 1 hour in millis
            long endTime =endDate.getTime() ; // create your endtime here, possibly using Calendar or Date
            long curTime = startDate.getTime();
            while (curTime <= endTime) {
                dates.add(new Date(curTime));
                curTime += interval;
            }
            for(int i=0;i<dates.size();i++){
                Date lDate =(Date)dates.get(i);
                String ds = sdf1.format(lDate);   
                if(onlybunessdays){
                    String day= checkformat.format(lDate); 
                    if(!day.equalsIgnoreCase("Sat") && !day.equalsIgnoreCase("Sun")){
                          dateList.add(ds);
                    }
                }else{
                      dateList.add(ds);
                }

                //System.out.println(" Date is ..." + ds);

            }


        }catch(ParseException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
            throw e;
        }finally{
            sdf=null;
            sdf1=null;
        }
        return dateList;
    }

And the method call would be like :

public static void main(String aregs[]) throws Exception {
        System.out.println(getAllDatesBetweenTwoDates("2015/09/27","2015/10/05","yyyy/MM/dd","dd-MM-yyyy",false));
    }

You can find the demo code : Click Here

Answer 2

Enhancing one of the above solutions. As adding 1 day to end date sometimes adds an extra day beyond the end date.

    public static List getDaysBetweenDates(Date startdate, Date enddate)
    {
        List dates = new ArrayList();
        Calendar startDay = new GregorianCalendar();
        calendar.setTime(startdate);
        Calendar endDay = new GregorianCalendar();
        endDay.setTime(enddate);
        endDay.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1);
        endDay.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
        endDay.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
        endDay.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        endDay.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);

        while (calendar.getTime().before(endDay.getTime())) {
            Date result = startDay.getTime();
            dates.add(result);
            startDay.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
        }
        return dates;
    }

Answer 3

java9 features you can calculate like this

public  List<LocalDate> getDatesBetween (
 LocalDate startDate, LocalDate endDate) {

   return startDate.datesUntil(endDate)
     .collect(Collectors.toList());
}
`` 

Answer 4

With Joda-Time , maybe it's better:

LocalDate dateStart = new LocalDate("2012-01-15");
LocalDate dateEnd = new LocalDate("2012-05-23");
// day by day:
while(dateStart.isBefore(dateEnd)){
    System.out.println(dateStart);
    dateStart = dateStart.plusDays(1);
}

It's my solution.... very easy :)

Answer 5

This is simple solution for get a list of dates

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;  
public class DateList
{

public static SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

 public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
 {

    Date dt = new Date();
    System.out.println(dt);

        List<Date> dates = getDates("2017-01-01",dateFormat.format(new Date()));
        //IF you don't want to reverse then remove Collections.reverse(dates);
         Collections.reverse(dates);
        System.out.println(dates.size());
    for(Date date:dates)
    {
        System.out.println(date);
    }
 }
 public static List<Date> getDates(String fromDate, String toDate)
 {
    ArrayList<Date> dates = new ArrayList<Date>();

    try {

        Calendar fromCal = Calendar.getInstance();
        fromCal.setTime(dateFormat .parse(fromDate));

        Calendar toCal = Calendar.getInstance();
        toCal.setTime(dateFormat .parse(toDate));

        while(!fromCal.after(toCal))
        {
            dates.add(fromCal.getTime());
            fromCal.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
        }


    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println(e);
    }
    return dates;
 }
}

Answer 6

This will add all dates between two dates and It will add current dates and then new dates will be added based on loop condition.

private void onDateSet(){
    Calendar endDate = Calendar.getInstance(),startDate = Calendar.getInstance();
    startDate.set(currentYear,currentMonthOfYear,currentDayOfMonth);
    endDate.set(inputYear,inputMonthOfYear,inputDayOfMonth);
    datesToAdd(startDate,endDate);
    }

    //call for get dates list
    private List<Date> datesToAdd(Calendar startDate,Calendar endDate){
                    List<Dates> datesLists = new List<>();
                    while (startDate.get(Calendar.YEAR) != endDate.get(Calendar.YEAR) ||   
                           startDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) != endDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) ||
                           startDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) != endDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)) {

                             datesList.add(new Date(startDate.get(Calendar.YEAR), startDate.get(Calendar.MONTH), startDate.get(Calendar.DATE));

                             startDate.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);//increas dates

                         }
                         return datesList;
                }