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Java Date difference in terms of days [duplicate]

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Could anyone please help me out for calculating Date difference in terms of no of days in an efficient way?
Date nextCollectionDate = dispenseNormal.getDispensing().getNextCollectionDate();
Date currentDate = new Date();
int daysDiff = currentDate - nextCollectionDate;

//diff in msec
long diff = currentDate.getTime() - nextCollectionDate.getTime();
//diff in days
long days = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);

You can use JodaTime which is a very useful API for these scenarios
int days = Days.daysBetween(date1, date2).getDays();
or else you can create your own method and get the difference
public long getDays(Date d1, Date d2)
{
long l = d2.getTime() - d1.getTime();
return TimeUnit.DAYS.convert(l, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
}

I would suggest you to use LocalDate in Java 8:
LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.now().minusDays(1);
LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.now();
long days = Period.between(startDate, endDate).getDays();
System.out.println("No of days: " + days);
which as expected will print:
No of days: 1

You can use joda api
Below code should solve your query
Date nextCollectionDate = dispenseNormal.getDispensing().getNextCollectionDate();
Date currentDate = new Date();
Days d = Days.daysBetween(new DateTime(nextCollectionDate ), new DateTime(currentDate ))
int daysDiff = d.getDays();

Finding number of months between two dates including extra days?

i have a requirement where i need to find out number of months between two dates. i tried few examples but all are excluding number of extra days. please see in below example?
2010/03/22 -- fromdate
2010/05/30 -- todate
if we find diff between those dates then it is returning 2 months.here it is excluding 8 extra days. i need out put as 2.8(2 months and 8 days). how can i achieve it?
Thanks!

You can use Joda Time for this:
LocalDate date1 = new LocalDate(2010, 3, 22);
LocalDate date2 = new LocalDate(2010, 5, 30);
PeriodType monthDay = PeriodType.yearMonthDay().withoutYears();
Period difference = new Period(date1, date2, monthDay);
int months = difference.getMonths();
int days = difference.getDays();

Consider using Joda time for this.

Change this method little to get that extra days.
/**
* Gets number of months between two dates.
* <p>Months are calculated as following:</p>
* <p>After calculating number of months from years and months from two dates,
* if there are still any extra days, it will be considered as one more month.
* For ex, Months between 2012-01-01 and 2013-02-06 will be 14 as
* Total Months = Months from year difference are 12 + Difference between months in dates is 1
* + one month since day 06 in enddate is greater than day 01 in startDate.
* </p>
* #param startDate
* #param endDate
* #return
*/
public static int getMonthsBetweenDates(Date startDate, Date endDate)
{
if(startDate.getTime() > endDate.getTime())
{
Date temp = startDate;
startDate = endDate;
endDate = temp;
}
Calendar startCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
startCalendar.setTime(startDate);
Calendar endCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
endCalendar.setTime(endDate);
int yearDiff = endCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR)- startCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int monthsBetween = endCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH)-startCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) +12*yearDiff;
if(endCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) >= startCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH))
monthsBetween = monthsBetween + 1;
return monthsBetween;
}

use
org.joda.time.Month#monthsBetween(start, end)

How can I calculate the difference between two dates [duplicate]

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How do I calculate someone's age in Java?
I have two dates eg 19/03/1950 and 18/04/2011. how can i calculate the difference between them to get the person's age? do I have to keep multiplying to get the hours or seconds etc?

String date1 = "26/02/2011";
String date2 = "27/02/2011";
String format = "dd/MM/yyyy";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
Date dateObj1 = sdf.parse(date1);
Date dateObj2 = sdf.parse(date2);
long diff = dateObj2.getTime() - dateObj1.getTime();
int diffDays = (int) (diff / (24* 1000 * 60 * 60));

You use the classes Date and Duration:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Date.html
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/datatype/Duration.html
You create Date-objects, then use Duration's methods addTo() and subtract()

The following code will give you difference between two dates:
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
public class DateDiff {
public static void main(String[] av) {
/** The date at the end of the last century */
Date d1 = new GregorianCalendar(2000, 11, 31, 23, 59).getTime();
/** Today's date */
Date today = new Date();
// Get msec from each, and subtract.
long diff = today.getTime() - d1.getTime();
System.out.println("The 21st century (up to " + today + ") is "
+ (diff / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)) + " days old.");
}
}

Why not use jodatime? It's much easier to calculate date and time in java.
You can get the year and use the method yearsBetween()

Android/Java - Date Difference in days

I am getting the current date (in format 12/31/1999 i.e. mm/dd/yyyy) as using the below code:
Textview txtViewData;
txtViewDate.setText("Today is " +
android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(this).format(new Date()));
and I am having another date in format as: 2010-08-25 (i.e. yyyy/mm/dd) ,
so I want to find the difference between date in number of days, how do I find difference in days?
(In other words, I want to find the difference between CURRENT DATE - yyyy/mm/dd formatted date)

Not really a reliable method, better of using JodaTime
Calendar thatDay = Calendar.getInstance();
thatDay.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,25);
thatDay.set(Calendar.MONTH,7); // 0-11 so 1 less
thatDay.set(Calendar.YEAR, 1985);
Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance();
long diff = today.getTimeInMillis() - thatDay.getTimeInMillis(); //result in millis
Here's an approximation...
long days = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
To Parse the date from a string, you could use
String strThatDay = "1985/08/25";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
Date d = null;
try {
d = formatter.parse(strThatDay);//catch exception
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
Calendar thatDay = Calendar.getInstance();
thatDay.setTime(d); //rest is the same....
Although, since you're sure of the date format...
You Could also do Integer.parseInt() on it's Substrings to obtain their numeric values.

This is NOT my work, found the answer here. did not want a broken link in the future :).
The key is this line for taking daylight setting into account, ref Full Code.
TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"));
or try passing TimeZone as a parameter to daysBetween() and call setTimeZone() in the sDate and eDate objects.
So here it goes:
public static Calendar getDatePart(Date date){
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); // get calendar instance
cal.setTime(date);
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0); // set hour to midnight
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0); // set minute in hour
cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0); // set second in minute
cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0); // set millisecond in second
return cal; // return the date part
}
getDatePart() taken from here
/**
* This method also assumes endDate >= startDate
**/
public static long daysBetween(Date startDate, Date endDate) {
Calendar sDate = getDatePart(startDate);
Calendar eDate = getDatePart(endDate);
long daysBetween = 0;
while (sDate.before(eDate)) {
sDate.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
daysBetween++;
}
return daysBetween;
}
The Nuances:
Finding the difference between two dates isn't as straightforward as subtracting the two dates and dividing the result by (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000). Infact, its erroneous!
For example: The difference between the two dates 03/24/2007 and 03/25/2007 should be 1 day; However, using the above method, in the UK, you'll get 0 days!
See for yourself (code below). Going the milliseconds way will lead to rounding off errors and they become most evident once you have a little thing like Daylight Savings Time come into the picture.
Full Code:
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;
public class DateTest {
public class DateTest {
static SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
public static void main(String[] args) {
TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"));
//diff between these 2 dates should be 1
Date d1 = new Date("01/01/2007 12:00:00");
Date d2 = new Date("01/02/2007 12:00:00");
//diff between these 2 dates should be 1
Date d3 = new Date("03/24/2007 12:00:00");
Date d4 = new Date("03/25/2007 12:00:00");
Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();cal1.setTime(d1);
Calendar cal2 = Calendar.getInstance();cal2.setTime(d2);
Calendar cal3 = Calendar.getInstance();cal3.setTime(d3);
Calendar cal4 = Calendar.getInstance();cal4.setTime(d4);
printOutput("Manual ", d1, d2, calculateDays(d1, d2));
printOutput("Calendar ", d1, d2, daysBetween(cal1, cal2));
System.out.println("---");
printOutput("Manual ", d3, d4, calculateDays(d3, d4));
printOutput("Calendar ", d3, d4, daysBetween(cal3, cal4));
}
private static void printOutput(String type, Date d1, Date d2, long result) {
System.out.println(type+ "- Days between: " + sdf.format(d1)
+ " and " + sdf.format(d2) + " is: " + result);
}
/** Manual Method - YIELDS INCORRECT RESULTS - DO NOT USE**/
/* This method is used to find the no of days between the given dates */
public static long calculateDays(Date dateEarly, Date dateLater) {
return (dateLater.getTime() - dateEarly.getTime()) / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
}
/** Using Calendar - THE CORRECT WAY**/
public static long daysBetween(Date startDate, Date endDate) {
...
}
OUTPUT:
Manual - Days between: 01-Jan-2007 and 02-Jan-2007 is: 1
Calendar - Days between: 01-Jan-2007 and 02-Jan-2007 is: 1
Manual - Days between: 24-Mar-2007 and 25-Mar-2007 is: 0
Calendar - Days between: 24-Mar-2007 and 25-Mar-2007 is: 1

Most of the answers were good and right for your problem of
so i want to find the difference between date in number of days, how do i find difference in days?
I suggest this very simple and straightforward approach that is guaranteed to give you the correct difference in any time zone:
int difference=
((int)((startDate.getTime()/(24*60*60*1000))
-(int)(endDate.getTime()/(24*60*60*1000))));
And that's it!

Use jodatime API
Days.daysBetween(start.toDateMidnight() , end.toDateMidnight() ).getDays()
where 'start' and 'end' are your DateTime objects. To parse your date Strings into DateTime objects use the parseDateTime method
There is also an android specific JodaTime library.

This fragment accounts for daylight savings time and is O(1).
private final static long MILLISECS_PER_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
private static long getDateToLong(Date date) {
return Date.UTC(date.getYear(), date.getMonth(), date.getDate(), 0, 0, 0);
}
public static int getSignedDiffInDays(Date beginDate, Date endDate) {
long beginMS = getDateToLong(beginDate);
long endMS = getDateToLong(endDate);
long diff = (endMS - beginMS) / (MILLISECS_PER_DAY);
return (int)diff;
}
public static int getUnsignedDiffInDays(Date beginDate, Date endDate) {
return Math.abs(getSignedDiffInDays(beginDate, endDate));
}

This is Simple and best calculation for me and may be for you.
try {
/// String CurrDate= "10/6/2013";
/// String PrvvDate= "10/7/2013";
Date date1 = null;
Date date2 = null;
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("M/dd/yyyy");
date1 = df.parse(CurrDate);
date2 = df.parse(PrvvDate);
long diff = Math.abs(date1.getTime() - date2.getTime());
long diffDays = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
System.out.println(diffDays);
} catch (Exception e1) {
System.out.println("exception " + e1);
}

tl;dr
ChronoUnit.DAYS.between(
LocalDate.parse( "1999-12-28" ) ,
LocalDate.parse( "12/31/1999" , DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "MM/dd/yyyy" ) )
)
Details
Other answers are outdated. The old date-time classes bundled with the earliest versions of Java have proven to be poorly designed, confusing, and troublesome. Avoid them.
java.time
The Joda-Time project was highly successful as a replacement for those old classes. These classes provided the inspiration for the java.time framework built into Java 8 and later.
Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport and further adapted to Android in ThreeTenABP.
LocalDate
The LocalDate class represents a date-only value without time-of-day and without time zone.
Parsing strings
If your input strings are in standard ISO 8601 format, the LocalDate class can directly parse the string.
LocalDate start = LocalDate.parse( "1999-12-28" );
If not in ISO 8601 format, define a formatting pattern with DateTimeFormatter.
String input = "12/31/1999";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "MM/dd/yyyy" );
LocalDate stop = LocalDate.parse( input , formatter );
Elapsed days via ChronoUnit
Now get a count of days elapsed between that pair of LocalDate objects. The ChronoUnit enum calculates elapsed time.
long totalDays = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between( start , stop ) ;
If you are unfamiliar with Java enums, know they are far more powerful and useful that conventional enums in most other programming languages. See the Enum class doc, the Oracle Tutorial, and Wikipedia to learn more.
About java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.
The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.
Where to obtain the java.time classes?
Java SE 8 and SE 9 and later
Built-in.
Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
Java SE 6 and SE 7
Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
Android
The ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above) for Android specifically.
See How to use ThreeTenABP….
The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.

The Correct Way from Sam Quest's answer only works if the first date is earlier than the second. Moreover, it will return 1 if the two dates are within a single day.
This is the solution that worked best for me. Just like most other solutions, it would still show incorrect results on two days in a year because of wrong day light saving offset.
private final static long MILLISECS_PER_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
long calculateDeltaInDays(Calendar a, Calendar b) {
// Optional: avoid cloning objects if it is the same day
if(a.get(Calendar.ERA) == b.get(Calendar.ERA)
&& a.get(Calendar.YEAR) == b.get(Calendar.YEAR)
&& a.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) == b.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR)) {
return 0;
}
Calendar a2 = (Calendar) a.clone();
Calendar b2 = (Calendar) b.clone();
a2.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
a2.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
a2.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
a2.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
b2.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
b2.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
b2.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
b2.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
long diff = a2.getTimeInMillis() - b2.getTimeInMillis();
long days = diff / MILLISECS_PER_DAY;
return Math.abs(days);
}

best and easiest way to do this
public int getDays(String begin) throws ParseException {
long MILLIS_PER_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
long begin = dateFormat.parse(begin).getTime();
long end = new Date().getTime(); // 2nd date want to compare
long diff = (end - begin) / (MILLIS_PER_DAY);
return (int) diff;
}

Use the following functions:
/**
* Returns the number of days between two dates. The time part of the
* days is ignored in this calculation, so 2007-01-01 13:00 and 2007-01-02 05:00
* have one day inbetween.
*/
public static long daysBetween(Date firstDate, Date secondDate) {
// We only use the date part of the given dates
long firstSeconds = truncateToDate(firstDate).getTime()/1000;
long secondSeconds = truncateToDate(secondDate).getTime()/1000;
// Just taking the difference of the millis.
// These will not be exactly multiples of 24*60*60, since there
// might be daylight saving time somewhere inbetween. However, we can
// say that by adding a half day and rounding down afterwards, we always
// get the full days.
long difference = secondSeconds-firstSeconds;
// Adding half a day
if( difference >= 0 ) {
difference += SECONDS_PER_DAY/2; // plus half a day in seconds
} else {
difference -= SECONDS_PER_DAY/2; // minus half a day in seconds
}
// Rounding down to days
difference /= SECONDS_PER_DAY;
return difference;
}
/**
* Truncates a date to the date part alone.
*/
#SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public static Date truncateToDate(Date d) {
if( d instanceof java.sql.Date ) {
return d; // java.sql.Date is already truncated to date. And raises an
// Exception if we try to set hours, minutes or seconds.
}
d = (Date)d.clone();
d.setHours(0);
d.setMinutes(0);
d.setSeconds(0);
d.setTime(((d.getTime()/1000)*1000));
return d;
}

There's a simple solution, that at least for me, is the only feasible solution.
The problem is that all the answers I see being tossed around - using Joda, or Calendar, or Date, or whatever - only take the amount of milliseconds into consideration. They end up counting the number of 24-hour cycles between two dates, rather than the actual number of days. So something from Jan 1st 11pm to Jan 2nd 1am will return 0 days.
To count the actual number of days between startDate and endDate, simply do:
// Find the sequential day from a date, essentially resetting time to start of the day
long startDay = startDate.getTime() / 1000 / 60 / 60 / 24;
long endDay = endDate.getTime() / 1000 / 60 / 60 / 24;
// Find the difference, duh
long daysBetween = endDay - startDay;
This will return "1" between Jan 2nd and Jan 1st. If you need to count the end day, just add 1 to daysBetween (I needed to do that in my code since I wanted to count the total number of days in the range).
This is somewhat similar to what Daniel has suggested but smaller code I suppose.

All of these solutions suffer from one of two problems. Either the solution isn't perfectly accurate due to rounding errors, leap days and seconds, etc. or you end up looping over the number of days in between your two unknown dates.
This solution solves the first problem, and improves the second by a factor of roughly 365, better if you know what your max range is.
/**
* #param thisDate
* #param thatDate
* #param maxDays
* set to -1 to not set a max
* #returns number of days covered between thisDate and thatDate, inclusive, i.e., counting both
* thisDate and thatDate as an entire day. Will short out if the number of days exceeds
* or meets maxDays
*/
public static int daysCoveredByDates(Date thisDate, Date thatDate, int maxDays) {
//Check inputs
if (thisDate == null || thatDate == null) {
return -1;
}
//Set calendar objects
Calendar startCal = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar endCal = Calendar.getInstance();
if (thisDate.before(thatDate)) {
startCal.setTime(thisDate);
endCal.setTime(thatDate);
}
else {
startCal.setTime(thatDate);
endCal.setTime(thisDate);
}
//Get years and dates of our times.
int startYear = startCal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int endYear = endCal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int startDay = startCal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
int endDay = endCal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
//Calculate the number of days between dates. Add up each year going by until we catch up to endDate.
while (startYear < endYear && maxDays >= 0 && endDay - startDay + 1 < maxDays) {
endDay += startCal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR); //adds the number of days in the year startDate is currently in
++startYear;
startCal.set(Calendar.YEAR, startYear); //reup the year
}
int days = endDay - startDay + 1;
//Honor the maximum, if set
if (maxDays >= 0) {
days = Math.min(days, maxDays);
}
return days;
}
If you need days between dates (uninclusive of the latter date), just get rid of the + 1 when you see endDay - startDay + 1.

One another way:
public static int numberOfDaysBetweenDates(Calendar fromDay, Calendar toDay) {
fromDay = calendarStartOfDay(fromDay);
toDay = calendarStartOfDay(toDay);
long from = fromDay.getTimeInMillis();
long to = toDay.getTimeInMillis();
return (int) TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(to - from);
}

Date userDob = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse(dob);
Date today = new Date();
long diff = today.getTime() - userDob.getTime();
int numOfDays = (int) (diff / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
int hours = (int) (diff / (1000 * 60 * 60));
int minutes = (int) (diff / (1000 * 60));
int seconds = (int) (diff / (1000));

use these functions
public static int getDateDifference(int previousYear, int previousMonthOfYear, int previousDayOfMonth, int nextYear, int nextMonthOfYear, int nextDayOfMonth, int differenceToCount){
// int differenceToCount = can be any of the following
// Calendar.MILLISECOND;
// Calendar.SECOND;
// Calendar.MINUTE;
// Calendar.HOUR;
// Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH;
// Calendar.MONTH;
// Calendar.YEAR;
// Calendar.----
Calendar previousDate = Calendar.getInstance();
previousDate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, previousDayOfMonth);
// month is zero indexed so month should be minus 1
previousDate.set(Calendar.MONTH, previousMonthOfYear);
previousDate.set(Calendar.YEAR, previousYear);
Calendar nextDate = Calendar.getInstance();
nextDate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, previousDayOfMonth);
// month is zero indexed so month should be minus 1
nextDate.set(Calendar.MONTH, previousMonthOfYear);
nextDate.set(Calendar.YEAR, previousYear);
return getDateDifference(previousDate,nextDate,differenceToCount);
}
public static int getDateDifference(Calendar previousDate,Calendar nextDate,int differenceToCount){
// int differenceToCount = can be any of the following
// Calendar.MILLISECOND;
// Calendar.SECOND;
// Calendar.MINUTE;
// Calendar.HOUR;
// Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH;
// Calendar.MONTH;
// Calendar.YEAR;
// Calendar.----
//raise an exception if previous is greater than nextdate.
if(previousDate.compareTo(nextDate)>0){
throw new RuntimeException("Previous Date is later than Nextdate");
}
int difference=0;
while(previousDate.compareTo(nextDate)<=0){
difference++;
previousDate.add(differenceToCount,1);
}
return difference;
}

public void dateDifferenceExample() {
// Set the date for both of the calendar instance
GregorianCalendar calDate = new GregorianCalendar(2012, 10, 02,5,23,43);
GregorianCalendar cal2 = new GregorianCalendar(2015, 04, 02);
// Get the represented date in milliseconds
long millis1 = calDate.getTimeInMillis();
long millis2 = cal2.getTimeInMillis();
// Calculate difference in milliseconds
long diff = millis2 - millis1;
// Calculate difference in seconds
long diffSeconds = diff / 1000;
// Calculate difference in minutes
long diffMinutes = diff / (60 * 1000);
// Calculate difference in hours
long diffHours = diff / (60 * 60 * 1000);
// Calculate difference in days
long diffDays = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
Toast.makeText(getContext(), ""+diffSeconds, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

I found a very easy way to do this and it's what I'm using in my app.
Let's say you have the dates in Time objects (or whatever, we just need the milliseconds):
Time date1 = initializeDate1(); //get the date from somewhere
Time date2 = initializeDate2(); //get the date from somewhere
long millis1 = date1.toMillis(true);
long millis2 = date2.toMillis(true);
long difference = millis2 - millis1 ;
//now get the days from the difference and that's it
long days = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(difference);
//now you can do something like
if(days == 7)
{
//do whatever when there's a week of difference
}
if(days >= 30)
{
//do whatever when it's been a month or more
}

Joda-Time
Best way is to use Joda-Time, the highly successful open-source library you would add to your project.
String date1 = "2015-11-11";
String date2 = "2013-11-11";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = new DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd");
DateTime d1 = formatter.parseDateTime(date1);
DateTime d2 = formatter.parseDateTime(date2);
long diffInMillis = d2.getMillis() - d1.getMillis();
Duration duration = new Duration(d1, d2);
int days = duration.getStandardDays();
int hours = duration.getStandardHours();
int minutes = duration.getStandardMinutes();
If you're using Android Studio, very easy to add joda-time. In your build.gradle (app):
dependencies {
compile 'joda-time:joda-time:2.4'
compile 'joda-time:joda-time:2.4'
compile 'joda-time:joda-time:2.2'
}

Difference in days between two dates in Java?

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=calculateDifference(agingDate, today);
Here calculateDifference is a private method, agingDate and today are Date objects, just for your clarification. I've followed two articles from a Java forum, Thread 1 / Thread 2.
It works fine in a standalone program although when I include this into my logic to read from the report I get an unusual difference in values.
Why is it happening and how can I fix it?
EDIT :
I'm getting a greater number of days compared to the actual amount of Days.
public static int calculateDifference(Date a, Date b)
{
int tempDifference = 0;
int difference = 0;
Calendar earlier = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar later = Calendar.getInstance();
if (a.compareTo(b) < 0)
{
earlier.setTime(a);
later.setTime(b);
}
else
{
earlier.setTime(b);
later.setTime(a);
}
while (earlier.get(Calendar.YEAR) != later.get(Calendar.YEAR))
{
tempDifference = 365 * (later.get(Calendar.YEAR) - earlier.get(Calendar.YEAR));
difference += tempDifference;
earlier.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, tempDifference);
}
if (earlier.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) != later.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR))
{
tempDifference = later.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) - earlier.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
difference += tempDifference;
earlier.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, tempDifference);
}
return difference;
}
Note :
Unfortunately, none of the answers helped me solve the problem. I've accomplished this problem with the help of Joda-time library.

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

I might be too late to join the game but what the heck huh? :)
Do you think this is a threading issue? How are you using the output of this method for example? OR
Can we change your code to do something as simple as:
Calendar calendar1 = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar calendar2 = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar1.set(<your earlier date>);
calendar2.set(<your current date>);
long milliseconds1 = calendar1.getTimeInMillis();
long milliseconds2 = calendar2.getTimeInMillis();
long diff = milliseconds2 - milliseconds1;
long diffSeconds = diff / 1000;
long diffMinutes = diff / (60 * 1000);
long diffHours = diff / (60 * 60 * 1000);
long diffDays = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
System.out.println("\nThe Date Different Example");
System.out.println("Time in milliseconds: " + diff
+ " milliseconds.");
System.out.println("Time in seconds: " + diffSeconds
+ " seconds.");
System.out.println("Time in minutes: " + diffMinutes
+ " minutes.");
System.out.println("Time in hours: " + diffHours
+ " hours.");
System.out.println("Time in days: " + diffDays
+ " days.");
}

The diff / (24 * etc) does not take Timezone into account, so if your default timezone has a DST in it, it can throw the calculation off.
This link has a nice little implementation.
Here is the source of the above link in case the link goes down:
/** Using Calendar - THE CORRECT WAY**/
public static long daysBetween(Calendar startDate, Calendar endDate) {
//assert: startDate must be before endDate
Calendar date = (Calendar) startDate.clone();
long daysBetween = 0;
while (date.before(endDate)) {
date.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
daysBetween++;
}
return daysBetween;
}
and
/** Using Calendar - THE CORRECT (& Faster) WAY**/
public static long daysBetween(final Calendar startDate, final Calendar endDate)
{
//assert: startDate must be before endDate
int MILLIS_IN_DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
long endInstant = endDate.getTimeInMillis();
int presumedDays =
(int) ((endInstant - startDate.getTimeInMillis()) / MILLIS_IN_DAY);
Calendar cursor = (Calendar) startDate.clone();
cursor.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, presumedDays);
long instant = cursor.getTimeInMillis();
if (instant == endInstant)
return presumedDays;
final int step = instant < endInstant ? 1 : -1;
do {
cursor.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, step);
presumedDays += step;
} while (cursor.getTimeInMillis() != endInstant);
return presumedDays;
}

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 );

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
public class Main {
public static long calculateDays(String startDate, String endDate)
{
Date sDate = new Date(startDate);
Date eDate = new Date(endDate);
Calendar cal3 = Calendar.getInstance();
cal3.setTime(sDate);
Calendar cal4 = Calendar.getInstance();
cal4.setTime(eDate);
return daysBetween(cal3, cal4);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(calculateDays("2012/03/31", "2012/06/17"));
}
/** Using Calendar - THE CORRECT WAY**/
public static long daysBetween(Calendar startDate, Calendar endDate) {
Calendar date = (Calendar) startDate.clone();
long daysBetween = 0;
while (date.before(endDate)) {
date.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
daysBetween++;
}
return daysBetween;
}
}

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;

Solution using difference between milliseconds time, with correct rounding for DST dates:
public static long daysDiff(Date from, Date to) {
return daysDiff(from.getTime(), to.getTime());
}
public static long daysDiff(long from, long to) {
return Math.round( (to - from) / 86400000D ); // 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24
}
One note: Of course, dates must be in some timezone.
The important code:
Math.round( (to - from) / 86400000D )
If you don't want round, you can use UTC dates,

Illustration of the problem: (My code is computing delta in weeks, but same issue applies with delta in days)
Here is a very reasonable-looking implementation:
public static final long MILLIS_PER_WEEK = 7L * 24L * 60L * 60L * 1000L;
static public int getDeltaInWeeks(Date latterDate, Date earlierDate) {
long deltaInMillis = latterDate.getTime() - earlierDate.getTime();
int deltaInWeeks = (int)(deltaInMillis / MILLIS_PER_WEEK);
return deltaInWeeks;
}
But this test will fail:
public void testGetDeltaInWeeks() {
delta = AggregatedData.getDeltaInWeeks(dateMar09, dateFeb23);
assertEquals("weeks between Feb23 and Mar09", 2, delta);
}
The reason is:
Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 EDT 2009 = 1,236,571,200,000 Mon Feb 23
00:00:00 EST 2009 = 1,235,365,200,000 MillisPerWeek =
604,800,000 Thus, (Mar09 - Feb23) / MillisPerWeek =
1,206,000,000 / 604,800,000 = 1.994...
but anyone looking at a calendar would agree that the answer is 2.

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;
}

Look at the getFragmentInDays methods in this apache commons-lang class DateUtils.

Based on #Mad_Troll's answer, I developed this method.
I've run about 30 test cases against it, is the only method that handles sub day time fragments correctly.
Example: If you pass now & now + 1 millisecond that is still the same day.
Doing 1-1-13 23:59:59.098 to 1-1-13 23:59:59.099 returns 0 days, correctly; allot of the other methods posted here will not do this correctly.
Worth noting it does not care about which way you put them in, If your end date is before your start date it will count backwards.
/**
* This is not quick but if only doing a few days backwards/forwards then it is very accurate.
*
* #param startDate from
* #param endDate to
* #return day count between the two dates, this can be negative if startDate is after endDate
*/
public static long daysBetween(#NotNull final Calendar startDate, #NotNull final Calendar endDate) {
//Forwards or backwards?
final boolean forward = startDate.before(endDate);
// Which direction are we going
final int multiplier = forward ? 1 : -1;
// The date we are going to move.
final Calendar date = (Calendar) startDate.clone();
// Result
long daysBetween = 0;
// Start at millis (then bump up until we go back a day)
int fieldAccuracy = 4;
int field;
int dayBefore, dayAfter;
while (forward && date.before(endDate) || !forward && endDate.before(date)) {
// We start moving slowly if no change then we decrease accuracy.
switch (fieldAccuracy) {
case 4:
field = Calendar.MILLISECOND;
break;
case 3:
field = Calendar.SECOND;
break;
case 2:
field = Calendar.MINUTE;
break;
case 1:
field = Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY;
break;
default:
case 0:
field = Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH;
break;
}
// Get the day before we move the time, Change, then get the day after.
dayBefore = date.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
date.add(field, multiplier);
dayAfter = date.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
// This shifts lining up the dates, one field at a time.
if (dayBefore == dayAfter && date.get(field) == endDate.get(field))
fieldAccuracy--;
// If day has changed after moving at any accuracy level we bump the day counter.
if (dayBefore != dayAfter) {
daysBetween += multiplier;
}
}
return daysBetween;
}
You can remove the #NotNull annotations, these are used by Intellij to do code analysis on the fly

You say it "works fine in a standalone program," but that you get "unusual difference values" when you "include this into my logic to read from report". That suggests that your report has some values for which it doesn't work correctly, and your standalone program doesn't have those values. Instead of a standalone program, I suggest a test case. Write a test case much as you would a standalone program, subclassing from JUnit's TestCase class. Now you can run a very specific example, knowing what value you expect (and don't give it today for the test value, because today changes over time). If you put in the values you used in the standalone program, your tests will probably pass. That's great - you want those cases to keep working. Now, add a value from your report, one that doesn't work right. Your new test will probably fail. Figure out why it's failing, fix it, and get to green (all tests passing). Run your report. See what's still broken; write a test; make it pass. Pretty soon you'll find your report is working.

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;
}

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;
}

ThreeTen-Extra
The Answer by Vitalii Fedorenko is correct, describing how to perform this calculation in a modern way with java.time classes (Duration & ChronoUnit) built into Java 8 and later (and back-ported to Java 6 & 7 and to Android).
Days
If you are using a number of days routinely in your code, you can replace mere integers with use of a class. The Days class can be found in the ThreeTen-Extra project, an extension of java.time and proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. The Days class provides a type-safe way of representing a number of days in your application. The class includes convenient constants for ZERO and ONE.
Given the old outmoded java.util.Date objects in the Question, first convert them to modern java.time.Instant objects. The old date-time classes have newly added methods to facilitate conversion to java.time, such a java.util.Date::toInstant.
Instant start = utilDateStart.toInstant(); // Inclusive.
Instant stop = utilDateStop.toInstant(); // Exclusive.
Pass both Instant objects to factory method for org.threeten.extra.Days.
In the current implementation (2016-06) this is a wrapper calling java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit.DAYS.between, read the ChronoUnit class doc for details. To be clear: all uppercase DAYS is in the enum ChronoUnit while initial-cap Days is a class from ThreeTen-Extra.
Days days = Days.between( start , stop );
You can pass these Days objects around your own code. You can serialize to a String in the standard ISO 8601 format by calling toString. This format of PnD uses a P to mark the beginning and D means “days”, with a number of days in between. Both java.time classes and ThreeTen-Extra use these standard formats by default when generating and parsing Strings representing date-time values.
String output = days.toString();
P3D
Days days = Days.parse( "P3D" );

This code calculates days between 2 date Strings:
static final long MILLI_SECONDS_IN_A_DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
static final String DATE_FORMAT = "dd-MM-yyyy";
public long daysBetween(String fromDateStr, String toDateStr) throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
Date fromDate;
Date toDate;
fromDate = format.parse(fromDateStr);
toDate = format.parse(toDateStr);
return (toDate.getTime() - fromDate.getTime()) / MILLI_SECONDS_IN_A_DAY;
}

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.

You should use Joda Time library because Java Util Date returns wrong values sometimes.
Joda vs Java Util Date
For example days between yesterday (dd-mm-yyyy, 12-07-2016) and first day of year in 1957 (dd-mm-yyyy, 01-01-1957):
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date date = null;
try {
date = format.parse("12-07-2016");
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
//Try with Joda - prints 21742
System.out.println("This is correct: " + getDaysBetweenDatesWithJodaFromYear1957(date));
//Try with Java util - prints 21741
System.out.println("This is not correct: " + getDaysBetweenDatesWithJavaUtilFromYear1957(date));
}
private static int getDaysBetweenDatesWithJodaFromYear1957(Date date) {
DateTime jodaDateTime = new DateTime(date);
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MM-yyyy");
DateTime y1957 = formatter.parseDateTime("01-01-1957");
return Days.daysBetween(y1957 , jodaDateTime).getDays();
}
private static long getDaysBetweenDatesWithJavaUtilFromYear1957(Date date) {
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date y1957 = null;
try {
y1957 = format.parse("01-01-1957");
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return TimeUnit.DAYS.convert(date.getTime() - y1957.getTime(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
}
So I really advice you to use Joda Time library.

I did it this way. it's easy :)
Date d1 = jDateChooserFrom.getDate();
Date d2 = jDateChooserTo.getDate();
Calendar day1 = Calendar.getInstance();
day1.setTime(d1);
Calendar day2 = Calendar.getInstance();
day2.setTime(d2);
int from = day1.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
int to = day2.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
int difference = to-from;