Question

I am trying to do calculate days between 2 dates as follow:

1. Obtain current date
2. Obtain past OR future date
3. Calculate the difference between no. 1 and no. 2
4. Present the dates in the following format
   • If the result is in past (2 day ago) or in the future (in 2 days)
   • Format will: days, weeks, months, years

I tried different ways but couldn’t get the result I wanted above. I found out that Android DatePicker dialog box convert date into Integer. I have not found a way to make DatePicket widget to return date variables instead of integer.

private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener mDateSetListener =
        new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {

            public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, **int** year, 
                                  **int** monthOfYear, **int** dayOfMonth) {
                enteredYear = year;
                enteredMonth = monthOfYear;
                enteredDay = dayOfMonth;
            }
        };

I tried to convert the system date to Integer, based on the above, but this doesn’t really work when trying to calculate days between 2 dates.

private void getSystemDate(){
     final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();

        mYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
        systemYear = mYear;

        mMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
        systemMonth = mMonth + 1;

        mDay = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        systemDay = mDay;

}

Answer 1

/** 
  *  Returns a string that describes the number of days
  *  between dateOne and dateTwo.  
  *
  */ 

public String getDateDiffString(Date dateOne, Date dateTwo)
{
    long timeOne = dateOne.getTime();
    long timeTwo = dateTwo.getTime();
    long oneDay = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
    long delta = (timeTwo - timeOne) / oneDay;

    if (delta > 0) {
        return "dateTwo is " + delta + " days after dateOne";
    }
    else {
        delta *= -1;
        return "dateTwo is " + delta + " days before dateOne";
    }
}

Edit: Just saw the same question in another thread:
how to calculate difference between two dates using java

Edit2: To get Year/Month/Week, do something like this:

int year = delta / 365;
int rest = delta % 365;
int month = rest / 30;
rest = rest % 30;
int weeks = rest / 7;
int days = rest % 7;