I have been looking into joda time and am finding it considerably easier
to work with than Date, Calendar, etc.
However, I have come across the following issue with the latest release
version. I've searched the mailing list but can't see any mention of
it.
Is the following inconsistency a bug or a feature?
Code:
LocalDate today = new LocalDate();
LocalDate futureDay = today.plusDays(5);
// Method 1:
Days days1 = Days.daysBetween(today,futureDay);
// Method 2:
DateMidnight dmToday = today.toDateMidnight();
DateMidnight dmFutureDay = futureDay.toDateMidnight();
Days days2 = Days.daysBetween(dmToday,dmFutureDay);
// Method 3:
Period period = new Period(today, futureDay);
System.out.println("Method 1 = " + days1.getDays() + " days.");
System.out.println("Method 2 = " + days2.getDays() + " days.");
System.out.println("Method 3 = " + period.getDays() + " days.");
Output:
Method 1 = 4 days.
Method 2 = 5 days.
Method 3 = 5 days.
The first method is the most intuitive and the one I would like to use,
however when calculating the number of days from today until a certain
date, it gives the incorrect answer (I appreciate "days between" is open
to interpretation, although method 2 uses the same method). 2 and 3
both give the desired result.
Based on the following quote I would expect methods 1 and 2 to give the
same results:
> ** Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote **
>
>
> Replying quickly...
>
> A LocalDate and a DateMidnight in UTC ought to be effectively
identical,
> as they are internally.
The same seems to happen for finding years between two dates as well as
days.
Many thanks,
Gareth
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