Android calculate days between two dates

Question

I have written the following code to find days between two dates

    startDateValue = new Date(startDate);
    endDateValue = new Date(endDate);
    long diff = endDateValue.getTime() - startDateValue.getTime();
    long seconds = diff / 1000;
    long minutes = seconds / 60;
    long hours = minutes / 60;
    long days = (hours / 24) + 1;
    Log.d("days", "" + days);

When start and end date are 2/3/2017 and 3/3/2017 respectively the number of days showing is 29.Though when they are of the same day it is showing 1.(The number of days one takes a leave.So if one takes a single day leave,he has to select same start and end date.So in this case he has taken two days leave).

What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your time.

Note: Please don't use the date constructor. Check the accepted answer below. Use simpledateformat or Joda time. Date constructor is deprecated.

Answer 1

Have look at this code , this is helpful for me ,hope it will help you.

public String get_count_of_days(String Created_date_String, String Expire_date_String) {
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy", Locale.getDefault());

Date Created_convertedDate = null, Expire_CovertedDate = null, todayWithZeroTime = null;
try {
    Created_convertedDate = dateFormat.parse(Created_date_String);
    Expire_CovertedDate = dateFormat.parse(Expire_date_String);

    Date today = new Date();

    todayWithZeroTime = dateFormat.parse(dateFormat.format(today));
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

int c_year = 0, c_month = 0, c_day = 0;

if (Created_convertedDate.after(todayWithZeroTime)) {
    Calendar c_cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    c_cal.setTime(Created_convertedDate);
    c_year = c_cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    c_month = c_cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    c_day = c_cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

} else {
    Calendar c_cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    c_cal.setTime(todayWithZeroTime);
    c_year = c_cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    c_month = c_cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    c_day = c_cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
}


/*Calendar today_cal = Calendar.getInstance();
int today_year = today_cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int today = today_cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int today_day = today_cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
*/

Calendar e_cal = Calendar.getInstance();
e_cal.setTime(Expire_CovertedDate);

int e_year = e_cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int e_month = e_cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int e_day = e_cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

Calendar date1 = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar date2 = Calendar.getInstance();

date1.clear();
date1.set(c_year, c_month, c_day);
date2.clear();
date2.set(e_year, e_month, e_day);

long diff = date2.getTimeInMillis() - date1.getTimeInMillis();

float dayCount = (float) diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);

return ("" + (int) dayCount + " Days");

}

Answer 2

public static int getDaysDifference(Date fromDate,Date toDate)
{
if(fromDate==null||toDate==null)
return 0;

return (int)( (toDate.getTime() - fromDate.getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
}