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Get the number of months beetween a date and today in JAVA

I'm trying to get the number of months between a given date in a String format ("2019-05-31"), sent as a parameter, and today : 2020-07-13. In this example it would be 13 month.

I want to put the answer in an int variable.

Is there an easy way to do it?

Thank you very much!

Solution

  • Since Java 1.8:

    LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
LocalDate myDate = LocalDate.parse("2019-05-31");
int months = (int) Period.between(myDate,today).toTotalMonths();
System.out.println(months); // output: 13