Find Remaining day and time using jodatime

Question

I want to compare(finding remaining days and time between two days) using joda time. I am taking two DateTime object like this(one is starting and another is ending)

Answer 1

Defines all standard fields from days downwards with PeriodType.dayTime().

For example :

DateTime startDate = DateTime.now(); // now() : since Joda Time 2.0
DateTime endDate = new DateTime(2011, 12, 25, 0, 0);

Period period = new Period(startDate, endDate, PeriodType.dayTime());

PeriodFormatter formatter = new PeriodFormatterBuilder()
        .appendDays().appendSuffix(" day ", " days ")
        .appendHours().appendSuffix(" hour ", " hours ")
        .appendMinutes().appendSuffix(" minute ", " minutes ")
        .appendSeconds().appendSuffix(" second ", " seconds ")
        .toFormatter();

System.out.println(formatter.print(period));

Sample output

Period between startDate and endDate is

47 days 12 hours 46 minutes 47 seconds

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Or

PeriodFormatter formatter = new PeriodFormatterBuilder()
        .appendPrefix("Day:", " Days:").appendDays()
        .appendPrefix(" Hour:", " Hours:").appendHours()
        .appendPrefix(" Minute:", " Minutes:").appendMinutes()
        .appendPrefix(" Second:", " Seconds:").appendSeconds()
        .toFormatter();

with output

Days:47 Hours:12 Minutes:46 Seconds:47

Answer 2

If you want the output in prettier format then you can use this snippet too

val startDate = DateTime.now()
val endDate = DateTime(endTime)
val period = Period(startDate, endDate)

val periodFormatter = PeriodFormatterBuilder().apply {
    when {
        period.days > 0 -> appendDays().appendSuffix(" day", " days")
        period.hours > 0 -> appendHours().appendSuffix(" hour", " hours")
        period.minutes > 0 -> appendMinutes().appendSuffix(" minute", " minutes")
    }
}.toFormatter()

periodFormatter.print(period)