You should be able to extract a Date object (using Calendar.getTime()) ,
then from this Date, call getTime() to get a long (in milliseconds). Do the
same for your other date, then compare the two long values.
A day can generally be assumed to be equal to :
1000ms * 60s * 60m * 24h
You may wish to set your two Calendar objects to 00:00:00.000 (hh:mm:ss.ms)
before extracting the time to eliminate perhaps redundant information, or
you could use modulus or or division operators (% or /) on the resulting
long values for the same thing. Depends upon what you need to do...
In any case, this should work around any month or year boundary problems.
-Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "sandarbh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:37 PM
Subject: date problems
> Hi all,
> I want to have exact difference in days for two days in Java. If for the
> current year , then I am able to extract exact info using calender class,
> but across the years its not possible?? can any one suggest a better way
> please??
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
> sandarbh
>
>
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