- Very first step to convert date into milliseconds (ms)
- String date1 = "01-02-2015 09:15:20";
- SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
- HH convert into 24 hours format (0-23)
- hh convert into 12 hours format
- Date d1 = format.parse(date1);
- long ms = d1.getTime();
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/* | |
1000 milliseconds = 1 second | |
60 seconds = 1 minute | |
60 minutes = 1 hour | |
24 hours = 1 day | |
*/ | |
package com.jpt.dateExample; | |
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; | |
import java.util.Date; | |
public class DateDiffExample { | |
public static void main(String[] args) { | |
String dateStart = "02/14/2015 09:29:58"; | |
String dateStop = "02/15/2015 10:31:48"; | |
//HH converts hour in 24 hours format (0-23), day calculation | |
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"); | |
Date jd1 = null; | |
Date jd2 = null; | |
try { | |
jd1 = format.parse(dateStart); | |
jd2 = format.parse(dateStop); | |
//in milliseconds | |
long diff = jd2.getTime() - jd1.getTime(); | |
long diffSeconds = diff / 1000 % 60; | |
long diffMinutes = diff / (60 * 1000) % 60; | |
long diffHours = diff / (60 * 60 * 1000) % 24; | |
long diffDays = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000); | |
System.out.print(diffDays + " days, "); | |
System.out.print(diffHours + " hours, "); | |
System.out.print(diffMinutes + " minutes, "); | |
System.out.print(diffSeconds + " seconds."); | |
} catch (Exception e) { | |
e.printStackTrace(); | |
} | |
} | |
} |