How to find the duration of difference between two

Question

I have two objects of DateTime, which need to find the duration of their difference,

I have the following code but not sure how to continue it to get to the expected results as following:

Example

      11/03/14 09:30:58
      11/03/14 09:33:43
      elapsed time is 02 minutes and 45 seconds
      -----------------------------------------------------
      11/03/14 09:30:58 
      11/03/15 09:30:58
      elapsed time is a day
      -----------------------------------------------------
      11/03/14 09:30:58 
      11/03/16 09:30:58
      elapsed time is two days
      -----------------------------------------------------
      11/03/14 09:30:58 
      11/03/16 09:35:58
      elapsed time is two days and 05 mintues

Code

    String dateStart = "11/03/14 09:29:58";
    String dateStop = "11/03/14 09:33:43";

    Custom date format
    SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");

    Date d1 = null;
    Date d2 = null;
    try {
        d1 = format.parse(dateStart);
        d2 = format.parse(dateStop);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    // Get msec from each, and subtract.
    long diff = d2.getTime() - d1.getTime();
    long diffSeconds = diff / 1000 % 60;
    long diffMinutes = diff / (60 * 1000) % 60;
    long diffHours = diff / (60 * 60 * 1000);
    System.out.println("Time in seconds: " + diffSeconds + " seconds.");
    System.out.println("Time in minutes: " + diffMinutes + " minutes.");
    System.out.println("Time in hours: " + diffHours + " hours.");

Answer 1

Here is how the problem can solved in Java 8 just like the answer by shamimz.

Source : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/datetime/iso/period.html

LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
LocalDate birthday = LocalDate.of(1960, Month.JANUARY, 1);

Period p = Period.between(birthday, today);
long p2 = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between(birthday, today);

System.out.println("You are " + p.getYears() + " years, " + p.getMonths() + " months, and " + p.getDays() + " days old. (" + p2 + " days total)");

The code produces output similar to the following:

You are 53 years, 4 months, and 29 days old. (19508 days total)

We have to use LocalDateTime http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/LocalDateTime.html to get hour,minute,second differences.

Answer 2

Date d2 = new Date();
Date d1 = new Date(1384831803875l);

long diff = d2.getTime() - d1.getTime();
long diffSeconds = diff / 1000 % 60;
long diffMinutes = diff / (60 * 1000) % 60;
long diffHours = diff / (60 * 60 * 1000);
int diffInDays = (int) diff / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);

System.out.println(diffInDays+"  days");
System.out.println(diffHours+"  Hour");
System.out.println(diffMinutes+"  min");
System.out.println(diffSeconds+"  sec");

Answer 3

The date difference conversion could be handled in a better way using Java built-in class, TimeUnit. It provides utility methods to do that:

Date startDate = // Set start date
Date endDate   = // Set end date

long duration  = endDate.getTime() - startDate.getTime();

long diffInSeconds = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(duration);
long diffInMinutes = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(duration);
long diffInHours = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(duration);
long diffInDays = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(duration);

Answer 4

In Java 8, you can make of DateTimeFormatter, Duration, and LocalDateTime. Here is an example:

final String dateStart = "11/03/14 09:29:58";
final String dateStop = "11/03/14 09:33:43";

final DateTimeFormatter formatter = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
        .appendValue(ChronoField.MONTH_OF_YEAR, 2)
        .appendLiteral('/')
        .appendValue(ChronoField.DAY_OF_MONTH, 2)
        .appendLiteral('/')
        .appendValueReduced(ChronoField.YEAR, 2, 2, 2000)
        .appendLiteral(' ')
        .appendValue(ChronoField.HOUR_OF_DAY, 2)
        .appendLiteral(':')
        .appendValue(ChronoField.MINUTE_OF_HOUR, 2)
        .appendLiteral(':')
        .appendValue(ChronoField.SECOND_OF_MINUTE, 2)
        .toFormatter();

final LocalDateTime start = LocalDateTime.parse(dateStart, formatter);
final LocalDateTime stop = LocalDateTime.parse(dateStop, formatter);

final Duration between = Duration.between(start, stop);

System.out.println(start);
System.out.println(stop);
System.out.println(formatter.format(start));
System.out.println(formatter.format(stop));
System.out.println(between);
System.out.println(between.get(ChronoUnit.SECONDS));

Answer 5

try the following

{
        Date dt2 = new DateAndTime().getCurrentDateTime();

        long diff = dt2.getTime() - dt1.getTime();
        long diffSeconds = diff / 1000 % 60;
        long diffMinutes = diff / (60 * 1000) % 60;
        long diffHours = diff / (60 * 60 * 1000);
        int diffInDays = (int) ((dt2.getTime() - dt1.getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));

        if (diffInDays > 1) {
            System.err.println("Difference in number of days (2) : " + diffInDays);
            return false;
        } else if (diffHours > 24) {

            System.err.println(">24");
            return false;
        } else if ((diffHours == 24) && (diffMinutes >= 1)) {
            System.err.println("minutes");
            return false;
        }
        return true;
}

Answer 6

This is a program I wrote, which gets the number of days between 2 dates(no time here).

import java.util.Scanner;
public class HelloWorld {
 public static void main(String args[]) {
  Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
  System.out.print("Enter starting date separated by dots: ");
  String inp1 = s.nextLine();
  System.out.print("Enter ending date separated by dots: ");
  String inp2 = s.nextLine();
  int[] nodim = {
   0,
   31,
   28,
   31,
   30,
   31,
   30,
   31,
   31,
   30,
   31,
   30,
   31
  };
  String[] inpArr1 = split(inp1);
  String[] inpArr2 = split(inp2);
  int d1 = Integer.parseInt(inpArr1[0]);
  int m1 = Integer.parseInt(inpArr1[1]);
  int y1 = Integer.parseInt(inpArr1[2]);
  int d2 = Integer.parseInt(inpArr2[0]);
  int m2 = Integer.parseInt(inpArr2[1]);
  int y2 = Integer.parseInt(inpArr2[2]);
  if (y1 % 4 == 0) nodim[2] = 29;
  int diff = m1 == m2 && y1 == y2 ? d2 - (d1 - 1) : (nodim[m1] - (d1 - 1));
  int mm1 = m1 + 1, mm2 = m2 - 1, yy1 = y1, yy2 = y2;
  for (; yy1 <= yy2; yy1++, mm1 = 1) {
   mm2 = yy1 == yy2 ? (m2 - 1) : 12;
   if (yy1 % 4 == 0) nodim[2] = 29;
   else nodim[2] = 28;
   if (mm2 == 0) {
    mm2 = 12;
    yy2 = yy2 - 1;
   }
   for (; mm1 <= mm2 && yy1 <= yy2; mm1++) diff = diff + nodim[mm1];
  }
  System.out.print("No. of days from " + inp1 + " to " + inp2 + " is " + diff);
 }
 public static String[] split(String s) {
  String[] retval = {
   "",
   "",
   ""
  };
  s = s + ".";
  s = s + " ";
  for (int i = 0; i <= 2; i++) {
   retval[i] = s.substring(0, s.indexOf("."));
   s = s.substring((s.indexOf(".") + 1), s.length());
  }
  return retval;
 }
}

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