Well, using this particular example, all the toStandardXXX methods are
throwing exceptions because of the presence of years in the Period, as the
Javadocs state. So is there a way around this, ie to convert a period of
months/years into minutes/hours etc?
Thanks,
- Elam
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Matt Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because the getXXX methods just return that FIELD of time. If you want the
> computed time, you need the toStandardXXX method.
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Elam Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying this simple example to understand the Period class.
>>
>> Why does the getDays() method return 0, instead of 472?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Elam
>>
>> DateTime start = new DateTime(2004, 12, 25, 0, 0, 0, 0);
>> DateTime end = new DateTime(2006, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
>>
>> // period of 1 year and 7 days
>> Period period = new Period(start, end);
>> System.out.println(period.getDays()); // Returns 0
>>
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