I want my app to show the time elapsed from the point an entry was stored in the database to the point it is fetched from the database.
I am currently doing something like this which gives me time elapsed in seconds:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss aa");
Date systemDate = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
String myDate = sdf.format(systemDate);
Date Date1 = sdf.parse(myDate);
Date Date2 = sdf.parse(savedDate);
int dateDiff = getTimeRemaining();
long millse = Date1.getTime() - Date2.getTime();
long mills = Math.abs(millse);
long Mins = mills/(1000*60);
String diff = +dateDiff+ "days " + Mins+ " mins";
cal[1] = "" +Mins;
t3.setText(diff);
But I also want it to include the no of days since the data was stored. As of now, it resets when the day is over. I want it to give me the total minutes after N days. How should I do it? Thanks in advance.
You firstly need to determine the number of seconds from database-stored-time until now.
long ageOfDatabaseEntry = (System.currentTimeMillis() - databaseEnteredTimeMillis)
You then need to determine how many days you want, then modulo the age by that number to get the remaining number of milliseconds.
long getRemainingMinutes(long age, int days) {
// Use the modulus operator to get the remainder of the age and days
long remainder = age % (days * 86400000);
if(remainder == age) {
throw new InvalidArgumentException("The number of days required exceeds the age of the database entry. Handle this properly.");
}
// Turn the remainder in milliseconds into minutes and return it
return remainder / 60000;
}
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I am saving current date in timestamp value in my firebase with below code
userValues.put("p_date", ServerValue.TIMESTAMP);
what I need to do is show a time difference between above saved value and current timestamp value, I have tried below code
//time ago
String starttime = book.getP_date().toString(); //getting saved timestamp from firebase
//current time
Long tsLong = System.currentTimeMillis()/1000;
String endtime = tsLong.toString();
long diffTime = Long.parseLong(endtime) - Long.parseLong(starttime);
String elapsedtime = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss").format(Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(diffTime)));
tvTimeAgo.setText(elapsedtime+"ago");
it is giving a result like 07:59:56 ago shown time difference is returning wrong result also what I need to have is 0h 5min 3s ago
how can I achieve this?
You can use TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS for formate TimeStamp as below
String timeHH_MM_SS = String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d",
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(diffTime),
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(diffTime) % TimeUnit.HOURS.toMinutes(1),
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(diffTime) % TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(1));
tvTimeAgo.setText("Time in hh:mm:ss is: "+timeHH_MM_SS);
I have a method which takes two String parameters. the two strings are Time values in 24 hour format. The Times are picked using a TimePicker from UI.
The goal of the method is to get the duration between the StartTime and EndTime in Minutes.
public static String getTimeDuration(String StartTime24, String EndTime24)
{
String duration = "";
try
{
SimpleDateFormat parseFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
Date startTime = parseFormat.parse(StartTime24);
Date endTime = parseFormat.parse(EndTime24);
long mills = endTime.getTime() - startTime.getTime();
long minutes = mills/(1000 * 60);
duration = "(" + minutes + " Minutes)";
}
catch(ParseException ex)
{
// exception handling here
}
return duration;
}
The method works fine if both the times are within a Single Date. For example:
StartTime = 22:15
EndTime = 23:51
Output = (96 Minutes)
But my problem is, the method returns negative if the end time is after 12'o clock at night. For example,
StartTime = 23:51
EndTime = 0:55
Output = (-1376 Minutes)
What I want: (64 Minutes)
How can get the duration correct ?
As there is no date used, you have to check first if your endTime is less than your startTime. If yes, then your endTime is on the next day and you have to add 1 day/86 400 000 milliseconds. Then you will have your desired result.
Just add this condition:
if(endTime.getTime() < startTime.getTime()){
long mills = ((endTime.getTime() + 86400000) - startTime.getTime()); 1 day = 86 400 000 mill
}
Hope this helps
You're only parsing the minutes and hours. There's no day on there. So that puts both times on the same day (the first day of the epoch, Jan 1 1970 to be exact). So the answer is correct. If you want it to treat the end time as the next day if its earlier than the start time, then add 1 day to the result (1440 minutes) if the result is less than 0.
i want to compare a date with the current date and do something if the difference is 2 months or 6 or a year .. but i have a problem how to get the correct difference for example if the current month is 02 2015 and the other month is 10 2014 i will get 8 in difference but the actual difference is 4 .. how to do it ?
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println("Current time => " + c.getTime());
SimpleDateFormat d = new SimpleDateFormat("dd");
SimpleDateFormat m = new SimpleDateFormat("MM");
SimpleDateFormat ye = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy");
String day = d.format(c.getTime());
String month = m.format(c.getTime());
String year = ye.format(c.getTime());
int d1=Integer.parseInt(day);
int m1=Integer.parseInt(month);
int d2=25;
int m2=02;
int diff=d1-d2;
String s=String.valueOf(diff);
You are calculating your difference between two int, so it can't work.
You should calculate it between two dates or two long (in secondes or milliseconds)
long oneDay, today, delay;
oneDay = 1000*3600*24; //number of milliseconds in a day
today = Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis();
delay = (TheDateYouWantToCompare - today)/oneDay;
if (delay >= 60*oneDay) { //more than 2 months
//your code
}else{
//your code
}
If TheDateYouWantToCompare and today are dates, it's almost the same :
delay = (TheDateYouWantToCompare.getTime() - today.getTime())/oneDay;
Edit :
Here it is how to get time in milliseconds.
String DateString = "31-12-2015";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date myDate = sdf.parse(DateString);
long timeInMilliseconds = myDate.getTime();
You could just use the difference in milliseconds between the 2 dates. Pre-compute the differences you need/want as constants and compare to the delta you have, for example:
static final long DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 25;
static final long MONTH = DAY * 30;
...
int diff = d1 - d2;
if(diff > MONTH) {
//more than a month difference
}
If you need something more complex you should perhaps use a library such as Joda Time which will give a more comprehensive set of features to work with time.
I have developed an application where the user receives the message from other application user. I want to just show the time like Facebook, eg. 1sec ago or 3Hrs ago. Something in this fashion. I tried a code from one of our Fellow S.O expert but that code seems to misbehave.
Here's the code which i used in my app.
static SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
static int[] steps = { 1, 60, 3600, 3600 * 24 };
static String[] names = { "sec", "mins", "hrs", "days" };
public static String formatDelay(String date) {
try {
Date d = sdf.parse(date);
Long stamp = d.getTime();
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
Long now = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000;
Format format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy MM dd HH:mm:ss");
String time = format.format(now);
Long dif = now - stamp;
dif = dif / 1000;
if (stamp > now)
return "";
for (int i = 0; i < steps.length; i++) {
if (dif < steps[i]) {
String output = Long.toString(dif / steps[i - 1]) + " "
+ names[i - 1];
return output;
}
}
return Long.toString(dif / steps[3]) + " " + names[3];
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return "";
}
}
When I used this code and sent a message from my application , it should show me sent 1sec ago, but in my case it shows me wrong time delay. For eg. I sent the message at 6pm then when I check my application sent item at 6:15pm its should show me 15 mins ago. But it shows me 12 hrs. When i debugged code, got to know that now time show date as 1970 00:00:00, this is because Long now = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000; when i remove that /1000 it shows me correct date and time. I am clue less why this is happening please help.
Use
android.text.format.DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString (long time, long now, long minResolution, int flags)
this will return time span in String format
For eg. if you pass a long value corresponding to 42 minutes ago in time and flags as DateUtils.FORMAT_ABBREV_RELATIVE the method will return 42 minutes ago
Official documentation DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString
When you divide System.currentTimeMillis() by 1000 you are converting its value to seconds.
You're then using that value to create a date which is interpreting the seconds value as the milliseconds since Thu Jan 01 1970, hence the date difference.
I would recommend using Joda-Time API. See this answer for reference.
Hi every one i want to devolepe an Alarm App i get the sunrise and sunset time from webservice now i need to manipulate these timing my date store in string when i calculate difference it give correct result when i add two time values it cause problem like
i try it like below to get the manipulated time that i applied manipulation but
it give wrong result
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("kk:mm:ss");
Date Date1 = sdf.parse(sunrsetat);
Date Date2 = sdf.parse("00:12:00");
long millse = Date1.getTime() + Date2.getTime();
long mills = Math.abs(millse);
int Hours = (int) (mills/(60*60*1000));<------ here it give hour 09 and it must be 19
int Mins = (int) (mills/(1000*60)) % 60;
long Secs = (int) (mills / 1000) % 60;
String time = String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d", Hours, Mins, Secs);
hanfiaiftaritime.setText(time);
Error occurs because Date.getTime() returns millis since Jan 1, 1970, so your mills field has value (assuming date1 < date2) of 2*date1 + difference-in-millis-date2-date1. (http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Date.html#getTime())
Solution: use Calendar class.
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(date1);
calendar.add(Calendar.SECOND, (int) date2.getTime() / 1000);
long millse = calendar.getTimeInMillis();
In this case computing hours/mins/seconds becomes redundant cause you can use http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Calendar.html#get(int) like this:
int hours = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);