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Subtracting two date values and returning the different in number of days

Bearing the risk of being redundant, I would like to know how one can subtract 2 date values and store the result which should be in number of days into an integer. I am using Java for this exercise.

Solution

  • If you have two LocalDates, you can use:

    longs days = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between(date1, date2);

    Note that Period::getDays does something different: for a period of one year and one day, Period::getDays will return 1, not 366!