I would think that the results of such a calculation would not be very accurate since months and years have varying lengths.
For instance, what would be the result of taking the difference of 11/30/2001 and 2/28/2001 ? is it 9 months or 9 months and two days? Regards, Richard At 04:28 PM 12/13/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Is there any way to get the difference in year, month, day format? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Richard Yee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:18 PM >Subject: Re: date difference > > > > You can first parse the strings using the DateFormat.parse() method to get > > a Date object and then use the Date.getTime() method to return the # of > > milliseconds from the epoch for each date. > > Subtract the values returned by getTime(). > > Divide the result by (60 * 60 * 24 * 1000) = (86400000) to get the # of > > days difference. > > > > Regards, > > > > Richard > > > > > > At 03:44 PM 12/13/2001 -0700, you wrote: > > >Does someone have an example of how to calculate the date difference in >java. > > > > > >For example I have these two dates > > >date #1 [12/01/2001] > > >date #2 [12/31/2002] > > > > > >How do I calculate the # of days apart from date #1 to date #2 > > > > > >Need some guidiance~ > > > > > > >=========================================================================== > > >To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff > > >JSP-INTEREST". > > >For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST >DIGEST". > > >Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > > > > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > > > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > > > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > > > http://www.jspinsider.com > > > > >=========================================================================== > > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff >JSP-INTEREST". > > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST >DIGEST". > > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > > http://www.jspinsider.com > > > >=========================================================================== >To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff >JSP-INTEREST". >For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". >Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
