I've tried different methods around the web but couldn't make it work.
Cursor cursor = sqlite.myDataBase.rawQuery("SELECT StartDate, EndDate FROM Tracks Where Id="+'"'+trackId+'"',null);
SimpleDateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date startDate = outputFormat.parse(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("StartDate")));
Date endDate = outputFormat.parse(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("EndDate")));
In this way I get both dates in good format. Now I want to find the difference between EndDate
and Startdate
in seconds.
Any advice? Thank you.
You can turn a date object into a long (milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970), and then use TimeUnit
to get the number of seconds:
long diffInMs = endDate.getTime() - startDate.getTime();
long diffInSec = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(diffInMs);
Edit:
-Corrected the name of the variable diffInMs which was written diffInM(i)s in the second line.
try below method:-
public String twoDatesBetweenTime(String oldtime)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
int day = 0;
int hh = 0;
int mm = 0;
try
{
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date oldDate = dateFormat.parse(oldtime);
Date cDate = new Date();
Long timeDiff = cDate.getTime() - oldDate.getTime();
day = (int) TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(timeDiff);
hh = (int) (TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(timeDiff) - TimeUnit.DAYS.toHours(day));
mm = (int) (TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(timeDiff) - TimeUnit.HOURS.toMinutes(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(timeDiff)));
}
catch (ParseException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
if(day==0)
{
return hh + " hour " + mm + " min";
}
else if(hh==0)
{
return mm + " min";
}
else
{
return day + " days " + hh + " hour " + mm + " min";
}
}
Just complementing this answer for other developers (like me) who are using Time instead of Date.
Time t1 = new Time();
t1.setToNow();
Thread.sleep(1000);
Time t2 = new Time();
t2.setToNow();
diff = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(t2.toMillis(true)-t1.toMillis(true));