Question

Am having string posting date like :

2011-03-27T09:39:01.607

and There is current date .

I want to get difference between these two dates in the form of :

2 days ago 
1 minute ago etc..

depending posting date.

Am using this code to convert posting date to milliseconds:

public long Date_to_MilliSeconds(int day, int month, int year, int hour, int minute) {
    Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    c.set(year, month, day, hour, minute, 00);
    return c.getTimeInMillis();
}

this current date: long now = System.currentTimeMillis();

and to calculate difference:

String difference = (String) DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(time,now, 0);

But it returning like May 1 , 1970 or something ..

How to get the difference between posting date and current date.

Answer 1

The reason you get 1970 is because it is the epoch date in milli seconds. To get the actual difference use the below.

Use JodaTime