get date difference in java, use of getDate()

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I am co-working with a group, I want to ask how can i get the date difference from a formate of "Sat Feb 23 00:00:00 GMT 2013". The pickerfrom and to is a calendar, and getDate returns that formate. How can I get the date difference in days? any idea?

 /*   Current format  Sat Feb 23 00:00:00 GMT 2013  */
 Date date_from = pickerFrom.getDate();
 Date date_to = pickerTo.getDate();

 int date_diff = (int)((date_to)-(date_from));

You need to tell us more. In what format do you want the difference? Do you want difference in `days`, `months`? — Rohit Jain, Feb 16 '13 at 15:57

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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Checkout getting the difference between date in days in java

My preference would be to use Joda time - it has many useful date functions that'll make your life much easier when it comes to dates and date manipulation

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answered Feb 16 '13 at 15:58

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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You can get the difference in milliseconds of each date and subtract these values.

long diff = date_to.getTime() - date_from.getTime();

will return you the number of milliseconds between the two dates.

Then, you can use something like this to get the number of hours, days,... out of these milliseconds.

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answered Feb 16 '13 at 15:57

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get date difference in java, use of getDate()

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