I have a date and a time of a month, for example 31/01/2020 at 14:00:00, this is the last friday of January. How can I get the date for the last Friday of Feb, March, etc.? It should be dynamic because any date can come in, like the second Tuesday of any month and so on.
I am trying with the following with no luck:
LocalDateTime startTime = LocalDateTime.of(2020, 1, 31, 14, 0, 0);
final Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.set(startTime.getYear(), startTime.getMonthValue() - 1, startTime.getDayOfMonth(), startTime.getHour(), startTime.getMinute(), startTime.getSecond());
int ordinal = calendar.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH);
startTime = startTime.plusMonths(1).with(TemporalAdjusters.dayOfWeekInMonth(ordinal, startTime.getDayOfWeek();
System.out.println(startTime);
it's printing 06/03/2020 (six of march) at 14:00:00 which is wrong and should be 28/02/2020
What am I missing?
Thanks!
As mentioned before, there is some ambiguity in which day of the week of the month you mean, that is, whether you mean the nth day of week or the last nth day of week of the month.
One such example is Monday, February 24th, 2020. It is the fourth and last Monday of February 2020. If you are going to try to determine this for March 2020, which Monday would you pick? The fourth Monday is 23 March, but the last Monday is 30 March.
So apparently, you'll need to distinguish between whether you count forward or backward.
You could, for instance, create a class which represents a certain day of week in a month. This holds three fields: a day-of-week, a position, and whether the position is backwards or not. E.g.
"The second Monday of the month" would have
dayOfWeek = DayOfWeek.MONDAY
position = 2
backwards = false
and
"The last Thursday of the month" would have
dayOfWeek = DayOfWeek.THURSDAY
position = 1
backwards = true
public class WeekdayInMonth {
private final boolean backwards;
private final DayOfWeek dayOfWeek;
private final int position;
private WeekdayInMonth(DayOfWeek dayOfWeek, int position, boolean backwards) {
if (position < 1 || position > 5) {
throw new DateTimeException("Position in month must be between 1 and 5 inclusive");
}
this.dayOfWeek = dayOfWeek;
this.position = position;
this.backwards = backwards;
}
}
We could add factory methods to create WeekdayInMonths from LocalDates:
public static WeekdayInMonth of(LocalDate date) {
int positionInMonth = (date.getDayOfMonth() - 1) / 7 + 1;
return new WeekdayInMonth(date.getDayOfWeek(), positionInMonth, false);
}
private static WeekdayInMonth ofReversing(LocalDate date) {
int lastDayOfMonth = date.with(TemporalAdjusters.lastDayOfMonth()).getDayOfMonth();
int positionInMonth = (lastDayOfMonth - date.getDayOfMonth()) / 7 + 1;
return new WeekdayInMonth(date.getDayOfWeek(), positionInMonth, true);
}
At last, we add a method to get a LocalDate from a YearMonth adjusted to the WeekdayInMonth.
public LocalDate toLocalDate(YearMonth yearMonth) {
// Get a temporal adjuster to adjust a LocalDate to match a day-of-the-week
TemporalAdjuster adjuster = this.backwards ? TemporalAdjusters.lastInMonth(this.dayOfWeek) : TemporalAdjusters.firstInMonth(this.dayOfWeek);
int weeks = this.position - 1;
LocalDate date = yearMonth.atDay(1)
.with(adjuster)
.plusWeeks(this.backwards ? 0 - weeks : weeks);
if (!Objects.equals(yearMonth, YearMonth.from(date))) {
throw new DateTimeException(String.format("%s #%s in %s does not exist", this.dayOfWeek, this.position, yearMonth));
}
return date;
}
Working example
Here a working example at Ideone.
Addendum
I am getting errors like this if the initial date is Jan 1 2020: java.time.DateTimeException: FRIDAY #5 in 2020-02 does not exist. How could I get the previous weekday in case this happens? In this case, how would I get the previous Friday?
Well, then you need to adjust your LocalDate so that it falls within the specified yearmonth. Since every month has at least four day-of-the-weeks and no more than five of them, the difference is never more than a week. We could, after removing the throw new DateTimeException line, simply adjust the returned LocalDate using plusWeeks.
I've forked the abovementioned example and added the toAdjustingLocalDate method.
This solution is kind of complicated but this is because "last of" or "third in" etc aren't always well defined and might not even exists under some conditions. So here is a solution that looks at the initial date and depending of the day of the month it either performs calculations from the start of the month, calculating forward, or the end of the month, calculating backwards.
From my testing it seems to generate the right results and I am sure some code refactoring could be done as well to improve the code but I leave that for the reader.
public static LocalDateTime nextWithSameDayOfMonth(LocalDateTime indate) {
if (indate.getDayOfMonth() < 15) {
return getForStartOfMonth(indate);
}
return getForEndOfMonth(indate);
}
private static LocalDateTime getForEndOfMonth(LocalDateTime indate) {
DayOfWeek dayOfWeek = indate.getDayOfWeek();
LocalDateTime workDate = indate.with(TemporalAdjusters.lastDayOfMonth());
int count = 0;
while (workDate.isAfter(indate)) {
count++;
workDate = workDate.minusWeeks(1);
}
LocalDateTime nextDate = indate.plusMonths(1).with(TemporalAdjusters.lastDayOfMonth());
while (nextDate.getDayOfWeek() != dayOfWeek) {
nextDate = nextDate.minusDays(1);
}
return count == 0 ? nextDate : nextDate.minusWeeks(count - 1);
}
private static LocalDateTime getForStartOfMonth(LocalDateTime indate) {
DayOfWeek dayOfWeek = indate.getDayOfWeek();
LocalDateTime workDate = indate.with(TemporalAdjusters.firstDayOfMonth());
int count = 0;
while (workDate.isBefore(indate)) {
count++;
workDate = workDate.plusWeeks(1);
}
LocalDateTime nextDate = indate.plusMonths(1).with(TemporalAdjusters.firstDayOfMonth());
while (nextDate.getDayOfWeek() != dayOfWeek) {
nextDate = nextDate.plusDays(1);
}
return count == 0 ? nextDate : nextDate.plusWeeks(count - 1);
}
Could you check if the function work for you?
public class FindSameDayNextMonth {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Next month of 'today' is " + FindSameDayNextMonth.getSameDayNextMonth());
}
public static Date getSameDayNextMonth() {
LocalDateTime dt = LocalDateTime.now();
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set(Calendar.MONTH, dt.getMonthValue()-1);
c.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, dt.getDayOfMonth());
c.add(Calendar.MONTH, 1);
return c.getTime();
}
}
The output is
Next month of today is Mon Sep 23 07:18:09 CDT 2019
When I use these codes, I get dates of the month which we are in. For instance, I can see dates between from 01/09/2017 to 21/09/2017.
private void createRandomData(InMemoryCursor cursor) {
List<Object[]> data = new ArrayList<>();
Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getDefault(), Locale.getDefault());
today.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,0);
today.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
today.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
mStart = (Calendar) today.clone();
mStart.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
while (mStart.compareTo(today) <= 0) {
data.add(createItem(mStart.getTimeInMillis()));
mStart.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
}
cursor.addAll(data);
}
However, I need dates of the particular month. How can I see other dates which in other months? For example, I want to see dates of April. It should not be September. (I know it's related to today.clone() but I didn't understand how can I change it).
I plan to separate months with dialog in Android studio and when I select any month, I should see all of dates of month.
I need just dates of a month for doing this, like April. How can I get dates of April? (If I get dates of April, I can do this all of the months)
EDIT Some changing and results:
private void createRandomData(InMemoryCursor cursor) {
List<Object[]> data = new ArrayList<>();
Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getDefault(), Locale.getDefault());
today.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,0);
today.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
today.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
mStart = (Calendar) today.clone();
mStart.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.APRIL);
mStart.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
data.add(createItem(mStart.getTimeInMillis()));
cursor.addAll(data);
}
I get just 01/04/2017
private void createRandomData(InMemoryCursor cursor) {
List<Object[]> data = new ArrayList<>();
Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getDefault(), Locale.getDefault());
today.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,0);
today.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
today.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
mStart = (Calendar) today.clone();
mStart.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.APRIL);
int daysInMonth = today.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
for(int i=0; i<daysInMonth; i++ ){
mStart.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, i);}
data.add(createItem(mStart.getTimeInMillis()));
cursor.addAll(data);
}
I get just 29/04/2017 and If I change mStart.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, i) to mStart.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1) result is 01/04/2017
To get all the dates of a particular month, set the Calendar to a date in that month, e.g. the 1th, ask the Calendar for the number of dates in that month, then get the dates.
You could also just get dates until month changes, but code below ask for number of days in the month, to show how you can do that.
This code just prints the dates. You can of course do whatever you want with them instead.
public static void printDatesInMonth(int year, int month) {
SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.clear();
cal.set(year, month - 1, 1);
int daysInMonth = cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
for (int i = 0; i < daysInMonth; i++) {
System.out.println(fmt.format(cal.getTime()));
cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
}
}
Test
printDatesInMonth(2017, 2);
Output
01/02/2017
02/02/2017
03/02/2017
04/02/2017
05/02/2017
06/02/2017
07/02/2017
08/02/2017
09/02/2017
10/02/2017
11/02/2017
12/02/2017
13/02/2017
14/02/2017
15/02/2017
16/02/2017
17/02/2017
18/02/2017
19/02/2017
20/02/2017
21/02/2017
22/02/2017
23/02/2017
24/02/2017
25/02/2017
26/02/2017
27/02/2017
28/02/2017
#Andreas's answer provides the way to do it with Calendar. I just like to add another approach.
The old classes (Date, Calendar and SimpleDateFormat) have lots of problems and design issues, and they're being replaced by the new APIs.
In Android you can use the ThreeTen Backport, a great backport for Java 8's new date/time classes. To make it work, you'll also need the ThreeTenABP (more on how to use it here).
First you can use a org.threeten.bp.YearMonth to represent the month and year (in this case, April 2017). Then you loop through all the days of this month.
The getTimeInMillis() method takes the number of milliseconds since epoch (1970-01-01T00:00Z), and in your code you're getting it from the date at midnight, in the JVM default timezone.
In ThreeTen Backport, you do this by converting the YearMonth to a org.threeten.bp.LocalDate, then convert it to the JVM default timezone (using a org.threeten.bp.ZoneId), and then using the resulting org.threeten.bp.ZonedDateTime to get the epoch millis value:
// April 2017
YearMonth ym = YearMonth.of(2017, 4);
// get the last day of month
int lastDay = ym.lengthOfMonth();
// loop through the days
for(int day = 1; day <= lastDay; day++) {
// create the day
LocalDate dt = ym.atDay(day);
// set to midnight at JVM default timezone
ZonedDateTime z = dt.atStartOfDay(ZoneId.systemDefault());
// get epoch millis value
data.add(createItem(z.toInstant().toEpochMilli()));
}
If you also need to check if the date is before the current date, you can add an additional check:
....
// today
LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
// loop through the days
for (int day = 1; day <= lastDay; day++) {
// create the day
LocalDate dt = ym.atDay(day);
if (dt.isBefore(today)) {
....
The use of TimeZone.getDefault() and ZoneId.systemDefault(), although might seem a good convenience, is also tricky, because the JVM default timezone can be changed without notice, even at runtime, so it's better to always make it explicit which one you're using.
The API uses IANA timezones names (always in the format Region/City, like America/Sao_Paulo or Europe/Berlin).
Avoid using the 3-letter abbreviations (like CST or PST) because they are ambiguous and not standard.
You can get a list of available timezones (and choose the one that fits best your system) by calling ZoneId.getAvailableZoneIds().
Example: to use the New York timezone, you could do:
....
// New York timezone
ZoneId ny = ZoneId.of("America/New_York");
// today in New York timezone
LocalDate today = LocalDate.now(ny);
// loop through the days
for (int day = 1; day <= lastDay; day++) {
// create the day
LocalDate dt = ym.atDay(day);
if (dt.isBefore(today)) {
// set to midnight at New York timezone
ZonedDateTime z = dt.atStartOfDay(ny);
....
America/New_York is one of the valid names returned by ZoneId.getAvailableZoneIds().
java.util.Calendar
Regarding your code, you're starting with day zero and adding the item to data outside of the loop (so you're just adding the last one - indent your code and you'll see that data.add is outside of the for loop). The code should be like that:
Calendar mStart = (Calendar) today.clone();
// set day to 1
mStart.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
// set month to April
mStart.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.APRIL);
// now mStart is April 1st, we can begin the loop
// get the number of days in April
int daysInMonth = today.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
// loop from day 1 to daysInMonth
for (int i = 1; i <= daysInMonth; i++) {
// set the day
mStart.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, i);
// add item for the day
data.add(createItem(mStart.getTimeInMillis()));
}
// add all items to cursor
cursor.addAll(data);
you are starting with today's date, so assuming you want months starting from there simply use:
cal.add(Calendar.MONTH, 1) to move to next month or
cal.add(Calendar.MONTH, -1) to move to last month.
This question already has answers here:
Calculating days between two dates with Java
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Closed 5 years ago.
I've got a list of dates in format "yyyy-MM-dd", I'd like to have a number of days between my today date "2017-04-15" and first date from list which is higher than mine today date.
I am assuming that your events are not sorted by date. I am assuming that you can use Java 8. This is one of the tasks that have become so much easier with the java.time classes introduced in Java 8 (and backported to Java 6 and 7).
Use LocalDate.now() to get today’s date.
Iterate through your events, all the time keeping track of the closest future event date. For each event use LocalDate.parse() to convert the event’s date to a LocalDate. The 1-arg parse method fits your format. Compare with today’s date and with the earliest future event date encountered so far; if between, store as the new closest date. Use isAfter() and/or isBefore for the comparisons.
After your loop, you will either know the date or you will know that there are no future events at all. In the former case, use ChronoUnit.DAYS.between() to get the number of days from the current date to the event date.
Solution 1
If you are using joda library, then it will be easy, you can use Days.daysBetween :
Date startDate = ...;
Date endDate = ...;
int nbrDays = Days.daysBetween(new LocalDate(startDate), new LocalDate(endDate)).getDays();
Solution 2
Date startDate = ...;
Date endDate = ...;
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(startDate);
int day1 = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
cal.setTime(endDate);
int day2 = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int nbrDays = day1 - day2;
System.out.println(nbrDays);
You have to import :
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
Solution 3
If your dates are in this format "yyyy-MM-dd" so you can have two dates like this :
String date1 = "1991-07-03";
String date2 = "2017-04-15";
What you should to do, split your dates with - :
String spl1[] = date1.split("-");
String spl2[] = date2.split("-");
Calculate the difference between the two dates :
int year1 = Integer.parseInt(spl1[0]);
int month1 = Integer.parseInt(spl1[1]);
int days1 = Integer.parseInt(spl1[2]);
int year2 = Integer.parseInt(spl2[0]);
int month2 = Integer.parseInt(spl2[1]);
int days2 = Integer.parseInt(spl2[2]);
//make some calculation and in the end you can get the diffidence, this work i will let it for you.
This should solve your problem.
SimpleDateFormat myDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
List<Date> dateList = new ArrayList<Date>();
try {
beforeDate = myDateFormat.parse("2016-01-13");
dateList.add(myDateFormat.parse("2016-01-10"));
dateList.add(myDateFormat.parse("2016-01-11"));
dateList.add(myDateFormat.parse("2016-01-12"));
dateList.add(myDateFormat.parse("2016-01-19"));
dateList.add(myDateFormat.parse("2016-01-20"));
dateList.add(myDateFormat.parse("2016-01-21"));
} catch (ParseException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
//add here
boolean check = true;
for(int i = 0; check && i < dateList.size();i++){
if(dateList.get(i).after(beforeDate)){
afterDate = dateList.get(i);
check = false;
}
}
System.out.println(beforeDate+" "+afterDate);
long days = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between(LocalDate.parse(myDateFormat.format(beforeDate)), LocalDate.parse(myDateFormat.format(afterDate)));
if(days>0){
System.out.println(days);
}else{
System.out.println(0-days);
}
if you want to sort dateList then want to get afterDate then use this code after addition of date elements in dateList
Collections.sort(dateList,new Comparator<Date>() {
#Override
public int compare(Date o1, Date o2) {
return o1.compareTo(o2);
}
});
This will allow you to sort dates in ascending order..
I have start date and end date.
I need the number of months between this two dates in Java.
For example
From date: 2009-01-29
To date: 2009-02-02
It has one jan date and one Feb date.
It should return 2.
As the rest say, if there's a library that will give you time differences in months, and you can use it, then you might as well.
Otherwise, if y1 and m1 are the year and month of the first date, and y2 and m2 are the year and month of the second, then the value you want is:
(y2 - y1) * 12 + (m2 - m1) + 1;
Note that the middle term, (m2 - m1), might be negative even though the second date is after the first one, but that's fine.
It doesn't matter whether months are taken with January=0 or January=1, and it doesn't matter whether years are AD, years since 1900, or whatever, as long as both dates are using the same basis. So for example don't mix AD and BC dates, since there wasn't a year 0 and hence BC is offset by 1 from AD.
You'd get y1 etc. either from the dates directly if they're supplied to you in a suitable form, or using a Calendar.
Apart from using Joda time which seems to be the the favorite suggestion I'd offer the following snippet:
public static final int getMonthsDifference(Date date1, Date date2) {
int m1 = date1.getYear() * 12 + date1.getMonth();
int m2 = date2.getYear() * 12 + date2.getMonth();
return m2 - m1 + 1;
}
EDIT: Since Java 8, there is a more standard way of calculating same difference. See my alternative answer using JSR-310 api instead.
I would strongly recommend Joda-Time (and as of Java 8, the Java Time apis) for this.
It makes this sort of work very easy (check out Periods)
It doesn't suffer from the threading issues plaguing the current date/time objects (I'm thinking of formatters, particularly)
It's the basis of the new Java date/time APIs to come with Java 7 (so you're learning something that will become standard)
Note also Nick Holt's comments below re. daylight savings changes.
Now that JSR-310 has been included in the SDK of Java 8 and above, here's a more standard way of getting months difference of two date values:
public static final long getMonthsDifference(Date date1, Date date2) {
YearMonth m1 = YearMonth.from(date1.toInstant().atZone(ZoneOffset.UTC));
YearMonth m2 = YearMonth.from(date2.toInstant().atZone(ZoneOffset.UTC));
return m1.until(m2, ChronoUnit.MONTHS) + 1;
}
This has a benefit of clearly spelling out the precision of the calculation and it is very easy to understand what is the intent of the calculation.
Java 8 solution:
#Test
public void monthBetween() {
LocalDate d1 = LocalDate.of(2013, Month.APRIL, 1);
LocalDate d2 = LocalDate.of(2014, Month.APRIL, 1);
long monthBetween = ChronoUnit.MONTHS.between(d1, d2);
assertEquals(12, monthBetween);
}
Based on the above suggested answers I rolled my own which I added to my existing DateUtils class:
public static Integer differenceInMonths(Date beginningDate, Date endingDate) {
if (beginningDate == null || endingDate == null) {
return 0;
}
Calendar cal1 = new GregorianCalendar();
cal1.setTime(beginningDate);
Calendar cal2 = new GregorianCalendar();
cal2.setTime(endingDate);
return differenceInMonths(cal1, cal2);
}
private static Integer differenceInMonths(Calendar beginningDate, Calendar endingDate) {
if (beginningDate == null || endingDate == null) {
return 0;
}
int m1 = beginningDate.get(Calendar.YEAR) * 12 + beginningDate.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int m2 = endingDate.get(Calendar.YEAR) * 12 + endingDate.get(Calendar.MONTH);
return m2 - m1;
}
And the associatiated unit tests:
public void testDifferenceInMonths() throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
assertEquals(12, DateUtils.differenceInMonths(sdf.parse("2014/03/22"), sdf.parse("2015/03/22")).intValue());
assertEquals(11, DateUtils.differenceInMonths(sdf.parse("2014/01/01"), sdf.parse("2014/12/25")).intValue());
assertEquals(88, DateUtils.differenceInMonths(sdf.parse("2014/03/22"), sdf.parse("2021/07/05")).intValue());
assertEquals(6, DateUtils.differenceInMonths(sdf.parse("2014/01/22"), sdf.parse("2014/07/22")).intValue());
}
using joda time would be like this (i compared how many months between today and 20/dec/2012)
import org.joda.time.DateTime ;
import org.joda.time.Months;
DateTime x = new DateTime().withDate(2009,12,20); // doomsday lol
Months d = Months.monthsBetween( new DateTime(), x);
int monthsDiff = d.getMonths();
Result: 41 months (from july 6th 2009)
should be easy ? :)
ps: you can also convert your date using SimpleDateFormat
like:
Date x = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy").parse("20/12/2009");
DateTime z = new DateTime(x);
If you don't want to use Joda (for whatever reason), you can convert your date to TimeStamp and then do the differences of milli seconds between both date and then calculate back to months. But I still prefer to use Joda time for the simplicity :)
tl;dr
ChronoUnit.MONTHS.between(
YearMonth.from( LocalDate.of( 2009 , 1 , 29 ) ) ,
YearMonth.from( LocalDate.of( 2009 , 2 , 2 ) )
)
Time Zone
The Answer by Roland Tepp is close but ignores the crucial issue of time zone. Determining a month and date requires a time zone, as for any given moment the date varies around the globe by zone.
ZonedDateTime
So his example of converting java.util.Date objects to java.time.Instant objects implicitly uses UTC. Values in either of those classes is always in UTC by definition. So you need to adjust those objects into the desired/intended time zone to be able to extract a meaningful date.
ZoneId z = ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" );
ZonedDateTime zdtStart = myJavaUtilDate1.toInstant().atZone( z );
ZonedDateTime zdtStop = myJavaUtilDate2.toInstant().atZone( z );
YearMonth
Since you want to know how many calendar months were touched by your date range rather than the number of 30-day chunks elapsed, convert to YearMonth objects.
YearMonth start = YearMonth.from( zdtStart );
YearMonth stop = YearMonth.from( zdtStop );
ChronoUnit
Calculate months between by calling on ChronoUnit enum.
long monthsBetween = ChronoUnit.MONTHS.between( start , stop );
1
Half-Open
You desired a result of 2 but we get 1 here. The reason is that in date-time work the best practice is to define spans of time by the Half-Open approach. In Half-Open, the beginning is inclusive while the ending is exclusive. I suggest you stick to this definition throughout your date-time work as doing so ultimately makes sense, eliminates confusing ambiguities, and makes your work easier to parse mentally and less error-prone. But if you insist on your definition, simply add 1 to the result assuming you have positive numbered results (meaning your spans of time go forward in time rather than backward).
LocalDate
The original Question is not clear but may require date-only values rather than date-time values. If so, use the LocalDate class. The LocalDate class represents a date-only value without time-of-day and without time zone.
LocalDate start = LocalDate.of( 2009 , 1 , 29 ) ;
LocalDate stop = LocalDate.of( 2009 , 2 , 2 ) ;
long monthsBetween = ChronoUnit.MONTHS.between( start , stop );
1
About java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.
The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.
You may exchange java.time objects directly with your database. Use a JDBC driver compliant with JDBC 4.2 or later. No need for strings, no need for java.sql.* classes.
Where to obtain the java.time classes?
Java SE 8, Java SE 9, Java SE 10, and later
Built-in.
Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
Java SE 6 and Java SE 7
Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
Android
Later versions of Android bundle implementations of the java.time classes.
For earlier Android (<26), the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above). See How to use ThreeTenABP….
The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.
Joda Time is a pretty cool library for Java Date and Time and can help you achieve what you want using Periods.
You can use a Calendar or Joda time library for this.
In Joda time you can use the Days.daysBetween() method. You can then calculate the months difference. You can also use DateTime.getMonthOfYear() and do a subtraction (for dates in the same year).
It depends on your definition of a month, but this is what we use:
int iMonths = 0;
Calendar cal1 = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
cal1.setTime(date1);
Calendar cal2 = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
cal2.setTime(date2);
while (cal1.after(cal2)){
cal2.add(Calendar.MONTH, 1);
iMonths++;
}
if (cal2.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) > cal1.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)){
iMonths--;
}
return iMonths;
I had to write this implementation, becoz I had custom defined periods, which i had to look for within two dates.
Here you can define you custom period and put the logic, for calculation.
Here TimePeriod is a POJO which has start, end, period start, period End
public class Monthly extends Period {
public int getPeriodCount(String startDate, String endDate, int scalar) {
int cnt = getPeriods(startDate, endDate, scalar).size();
return cnt;
}
public List getPeriods(String startDate, String endDate, int scalar) {
ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
Calendar startCal = CalendarUtil.getCalendar(startDate);
Calendar endCal = CalendarUtil.getCalendar(endDate);
while (startCal.compareTo(endCal) <= 0) {
TimePeriod period = new TimePeriod();
period.setStartDate(startCal.getTime());
period.setPeriodStartDate(getPeriodStartDate((Calendar) startCal.clone()).getTime());
Calendar periodEndCal = getPeriodEndDate((Calendar) startCal.clone(), scalar);
period.setEndDate(endCal.before(periodEndCal) ? endCal.getTime() : periodEndCal.getTime());
period.setPeriodEndDate(periodEndCal.getTime());
periodEndCal.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
startCal = periodEndCal;
list.add(period);
}
return list;
}
private Calendar getPeriodStartDate(Calendar cal) {
cal.set(Calendar.DATE, cal.getActualMinimum(Calendar.DATE));
return cal;
}
private Calendar getPeriodEndDate(Calendar cal, int scalar) {
while (scalar-- > 0) {
cal.set(Calendar.DATE, cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DATE));
if (scalar > 0)
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
}
return cal;
}
}
it is not the best anwer but you can use unixtimestamp
First you find the unixtime's of the dates
then eject each other
Finally you should convert the unixtime(sum) to String
That's because the classes Java Date and Calendar use the Month indices from 0-11
January = 0
December = 1
Is recommended to use Joda Time!
Here's a solution using java.util.Calendar object:
private static Integer getMonthsBetweenDates(Date d1, Date d2) {
Calendar todayDate = getCalendar(d1);
Calendar pastDate = getCalendar(d2);
int yearDiff = todayDate.get(Calendar.YEAR) - pastDate.get(Calendar.YEAR);
if (pastDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) < 11 && pastDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) < 31){ //if pastDate is smaller than 31/12
yearDiff++;
}
int monthCount = 0;
for (int year = 0 ; year < yearDiff ; year++){
if (year == 0) {
monthCount += 12 - pastDate.get(Calendar.MONTH);
} else if (year == yearDiff - 1){ //last year
if (todayDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) < pastDate.get(Calendar.MONTH)){
monthCount += todayDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
} else if (todayDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) >= pastDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) && todayDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) < pastDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)){
monthCount += todayDate.get(Calendar.MONTH);
} else if (todayDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) >= pastDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) && todayDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) >= pastDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)){
monthCount += todayDate.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
}
}
for (int months = 0 ; months < 12 ; months++){
if (year > 0 && year < yearDiff -1){
monthCount++;
}
}
}
return monthCount;
}
Why not calculate with full timedate
public static Integer calculateMonthDiff(Date begining, Date end) throws Exception {
if (begining.compareTo(end) > 0) {
throw new Exception("Beginning date is greater than the ending date");
}
if (begining.compareTo(end) == 0) {
return 0;
}
Calendar cEndCheckDate = Calendar.getInstance();
cEndCheckDate.setTime(begining);
int add = 0;
while (true) {
cEndCheckDate.add(Calendar.MONTH, 1);
add++;
if (cEndCheckDate.getTime().compareTo(end) > 0) {
return add - 1;
}
}
}
A full code snippet for finding the difference of months between two date is as follows:
public String getContractMonth(String contractStart, String contractEnd) {
SimpleDateFormat dfDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String months = "0";
try {
Date startDate = dfDate.parse(contractStart);
Date endDate = dfDate.parse(contractEnd);
Calendar startCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
startCalendar.setTime(startDate);
Calendar endCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
endCalendar.setTime(endDate);
int diffYear = endCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR) - startCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int diffMonth = diffYear * 12 + endCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) - startCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);
months = diffMonth + "";
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return months;
}
below logic will fetch you difference in months
(endCal.get(Calendar.YEAR)*12+endCal.get(Calendar.MONTH))-(startCal.get(Calendar.YEAR)*12+startCal.get(Calendar.MONTH))
you can by 30 days or by months :
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
int n = getNumbertOfMonth(LocalDate.parse("2016-08-31"),LocalDate.parse("2016-11-30"));
System.out.println("number of month = "+n);
n = getNumbertOfDays(LocalDate.parse("2016-08-31"),LocalDate.parse("2016-11-30"));
System.out.println("number of days = "+n);
System.out.println("number of 30 days = "+n/30);
}
static int getNumbertOfMonth(LocalDate dateDebut, LocalDate dateFin) {
LocalDate start = dateDebut;
LocalDate end = dateFin;
int count = 0 ;
List<String> lTotalDates = new ArrayList<>();
while (!start.isAfter(end)) {
count++;
start = start.plusMonths(1);
}
return count;
}
static int getNumbertOfDays(LocalDate dateDebut, LocalDate dateFin) {
LocalDate start = dateDebut;
LocalDate end = dateFin;
int count = 0 ;
List<String> lTotalDates = new ArrayList<>();
while (!start.isAfter(end)) {
count++;
start = start.plusDays(1);
}
return count;
}
long monthsBetween = ChronoUnit.MONTHS.between(LocalDate.parse("2016-01-29").minusMonths(1),
LocalDate.parse("2016-02-02").plusMonths(1));
2016-01-29 to 2016-01-02 = months 1
2016-02-29 to 2016-02-02 = months 1
2016-03-29 to 2016-05-02 = months 5
Here a complete implementation for monthDiff in java without iterations. It returns the number of full month between two dates. If you want to include the number of incomplete month in the result (as in the initial question), you have to zero out the day, hours, minutes, seconds and millisecondes of the two dates before calling the method, or you could change the method to not compare days, hours, minutes etc.
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Calendar;
...
public static int monthDiff(Date d1, Date d2) {
int monthDiff;
Calendar c1, c2;
int M1, M2, y1, y2, t1, t2, h1, h2, m1, m2, s1, s2, ms1, ms2;
c1 = Calendar.getInstance();
c1.setTime(d1);
c2 = Calendar.getInstance();
c2.setTime(d2);
M1 = c1.get(Calendar.MONTH);
M2 = c2.get(Calendar.MONTH);
y1 = c1.get(Calendar.YEAR);
y2 = c2.get(Calendar.YEAR);
t1 = c1.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
t2 = c2.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
if(M2 < M1) {
M2 += 12;
y2--;
}
monthDiff = 12*(y2 - y1) + M2 - M1;
if(t2 < t1)
monthDiff --; // not a full month
else if(t2 == t1) { // perhaps a full month, we have to look into the details
h1 = c1.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
h2 = c2.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
if(h2 < h1)
monthDiff--; // not a full month
else if(h2 == h1) { // go deeper
m1 = c1.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
m2 = c2.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
if(m2 < m1) // not a full month
monthDiff--;
else if(m2 == m1) { // look deeper
s1 = c1.get(Calendar.SECOND);
s2 = c2.get(Calendar.SECOND);
if(s2 < s1)
monthDiff--; // on enleve l'age de mon hamster
else if(s2 == s1) {
ms1 = c1.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND);
ms2 = c2.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND);
if(ms2 < ms1)
monthDiff--;
// else // it's a full month yeah
}
}
}
}
return monthDiff;
}
So many answers with long code when you can just do it with 1 line and some math:
LocalDate from = yourdate;
LocalDate to = yourotherdate;
int difference = to.getMonthValue() - from.getMonthValue()) + ((to.getYear() - from.getYear()) * 12) + 1;
I am doing some table testing in word, all of the JUnits are done but i am having trouble testing a method - as i am the tester in this project and not the coder i am struggling to understand what is actually correct or not
public GregorianCalendar calcDeparture(String date, String time) {
String[] calDate = new String[3];
String[] calTime = new String[2];
calDate[0] = (date.substring(0, 2)); //Dat
calDate[1] = date.substring(2, 5); //Month
calDate[2] = "20" + date.substring(5, 7); //Year
calTime = time.split(":");
//Adds the year, month and day and hour and minute from the above splited arrays
int year = Integer.parseInt(calDate[2]);
int month = monthToInt(calDate[1]);
int day = Integer.parseInt(calDate[0]);
int hour = Integer.parseInt(calTime[0]);
int minute = Integer.parseInt(calTime[1]);
GregorianCalendar newDeparture = new GregorianCalendar(year, month, day, hour, minute, 0);
return newDeparture;
}
This is the method I am testing. If i pass it the values of "01AUG07 "14:40" i get a gregorian calander back but i don't know if the values inside of it are correct so i can't tick the passed or failed box. What i get back in the BlueJ object inspector is a load of really long numbers :D
can i get some help please
thanks
I suggest to check all the relevant values of the calendar at the same time using a SimpleDateFormat() like so:
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm");
String s = f.format (calcDeparture(yourDate, yourTime));
assertEquals ("2007-08-01 14:40", s);
Now call your method with odd dates (like 31.12.2999, August 45th, February 29th 2001, etc) to see what you get and how you should handle errors.
BlueJ? Consider using an IDE, not an educational software
The method is terribly written - working with dates using a strictly-formatted String is wrong.
Calendar (which is the supertype of GregorianCalendar) has the get method, which you can use like:
Calendar calendar = calcDeparture(yourDate, yourTime);
int day = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
int moth = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH); //this is 0 based;
and so on
Why can you just not use the standard getters to check the individual fields, along the lines of:
Calendar cal = calcDeparture("01AUG07", "14:40");
if (cal.get(Calendar.YEAR) != 2007) { ... }