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how to find difference between two date Time string?

I am calculating time difference between two dates and time but its restuning invalid difference.
here's my sample date and code to calculate the difference.
loginTime=2016-01-24 12:04:30.16
expiryTime = 2016-01-24 13:04:30.16
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
Date now = new Date();
try {
Date startDate = simpleDateFormat.parse(loginTime);
Date expireDate = simpleDateFormat.parse(expiryTime);
// String temCurrentDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(now);
// Date currentDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse(temCurrentDate);
// String day_of_week = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE").format(now);
long difference =startDate.getTime()- expireDate.getTime();
int hour = (int) difference / (60 * 60 * 1000);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Difference between this time is 1 hour but i am getting 11 or 13. Please tell where i am going wrong in this.

Spelling error in your variable:
simpleDateFormat.parse(expiryTime);
Does not match: ExpiryTime = 2016-01-24 13:04:30.16
That's the whole problem.

Cant fetch current time, date showing year as 1970

public static final String inputFormat = "HH:mm";
private Date date;
private Date dateCompareOne;
private Date dateCompareTwo;
LINE 5:
private String compareStringOne = String.valueOf(SetTimeActivity.intFromTimeH)+ ":"+ String.valueOf(SetTimeActivity.intFromTimeM) ;
LINE 6:
private String compareStringTwo = String.valueOf(SetTimeActivity.intToTimeH) + ":"+ String.valueOf(SetTimeActivity.intToTimeM);
SimpleDateFormat inputParser = new SimpleDateFormat(inputFormat, Locale.US);
private void compareDates()
{
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
int hour = now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minute = now.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
date = parseDate(hour + ":" + minute);
dateCompareOne = parseDate(compareStringOne);
dateCompareTwo = parseDate(compareStringTwo);
if (!(dateCompareOne.before( date ) && dateCompareTwo.after(date))) {
....
I am trying to check if current time falls between the specified time. For that I am converting the specified time into strings first (in Line5 & Line6). Even though I get the integer values correct, the string formed always shows "0:0".
Also, the year is shown as 1970 (The date & the day shown are wrong as well).
I need to get the current time. What am I doing wrong?
private Date parseDate(String date) {
try {
return inputParser.parse(date);
} catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
return new Date(0);
}
}

The parseDate() function returns the time elapsed since the 1st of January 1970. This is known as the Unix Epoch, and it's how all time is represented in Unix computers. By running the parseDate function on a string containing just hours and minutes, you're creating a Date object which represents a time HH:mm past the first of January 1970.
Your code is using a really odd way of getting the current time. Converting a Calendar to two ints, then to a string and finally parsing back to a Date is going to be inefficient and open you up to all sorts of needless errors.
When you initialise a new Date object it is automatically assigned the time of initialisation. Therefore:
Date d = new Date();
would result in d being the moment of initialisation (that is, this year, month, day, hour, minute, second and microsecond). Then you can just use Date.after() and Date.before().
If you still want to do it via the Calendar method, then you'd be better served by:
cal = Calendar.getInstance();
Date d = cal.getTime();
It may be that you've got other issues, but it's worth doing it properly first. When you pass data by writing it as a string (especially when it's time related, with all sorts of ambiguities about what "12" actually represents) you lose all the advantages that language typing gives you.

this code help you
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
int hour = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minute = c.get(Calendar.MINUTE); if (c.get(Calendar.AM_PM) == Calendar.AM)
am_pm = "AM";
else if (c.get(Calendar.AM_PM) == Calendar.PM)
am_pm = "PM";
// Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss a");
String formattedDate = df.format(c.getTime());
Toast.makeText(this, formattedDate, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

If you already work with Date objects why not using the Date.after(...) and Date.before(...) methods.

How to compare two Date and Time and get Day,Month,hour,min in Android?

I Have this type of Date in String Format 01-18-2013 06:43:35 Now, i want to compare this Date with Current Date and Time and get Day, Month, Hour, Min, .. I Searched this link but didn't get any Solution...Please share some solution..Thank you..

This might help,
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/DateFormat.html
You can parse the Date from string using
DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
myDate = df.parse(myString);

If I get your question, you would like to Compare a Date object with the current date..
Let's say that 'date' is the Date object you want to compare with the current date:
Why don't you just do something like date.after(new Date()) or date.before(new Date()) as suggested form the android doc?

You can get UTC with
new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss").parse("01-18-2013 06:43:35").getTime();
Then compare the result with
System.currentTimeMillis();

this may helps you to calculate to diffrent date time in millisecond
try{
Calendar calender = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar calDb = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar matchd = Calendar.getInstance();
mYear = calender.get(Calendar.YEAR);
mMonth = calender.get(Calendar.MONTH);
mDay = calender.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
mendYear = calDb.get(Calendar.YEAR);
mendMonth = calDb.get(Calendar.MONTH);
mendDay = calDb.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
// Here you can change day values
calDb.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, mDay-1);
strbeforedate = mDateFormat.format(calDb.getTime());
curentdate = mDateFormat.format(calender.getTime());
calDb.setTime(mDateFormat.parse(strbeforedate));
calender.setTime(mDateFormat.parse(curentdate));
String mydate = "2013.03.14 03:11";
String mdatetime = "";
deletepath = new ArrayList<String>();
for(int i=0;i<result.length;i++){
try{
// here your matching goes and pass date here
matchd.setTime(mDateFormat.parse(mdatetime));
long diff = calDb.getTimeInMillis() - calender.getTimeInMillis();
long matchdiff = matchd.getTimeInMillis() - calender.getTimeInMillis();
if(diff < matchdiff){
// do your work here
}else{
// do your else work here
}
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

How to get day from specified date in android

Suppose my date is 02-01-2013
and it is stored in a variable like:
String strDate = "02-01-2013";
then how should I get the day of this date (i.e TUESDAY)?

Use Calendar class from java api.
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(2008, 01, 01); // Note that Month value is 0-based. e.g., 0 for January.
int reslut = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
switch (result) {
case Calendar.MONDAY:
System.out.println("It's Monday !");
break;
}
You could also use SimpleDateFormater and Date for parsing dates
Date date = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat date_format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
try {
date = date_format.parse("2008-01-01");
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
calendar.setTime(date);

First split the string
String[] out = strDate.split("-");
s1 = Integer.parseInt(out[0]);
s2 = Integer.parseInt(out[1]) - 1;
yr = out[2];
char a, b, c, d;
a = yr.charAt(0);
b = yr.charAt(1);
c = yr.charAt(2);
d = yr.charAt(3);
s3 = Character.getNumericValue(a)*1000 +
Character.getNumericValue(b)*100 +
Character.getNumericValue(c)*10 +
Character.getNumericValue(d);
then create a calendar instance on that day
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(s3, s2, s1);
then get the day
cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

use this format for date, day and time.
Date dNow = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat ft = new SimpleDateFormat("E yyyy.MM.dd 'at' hh:mm:ss a zzz");
and get out put of object here with format method.
ft.format(dNow)

I think that based on Android documentation is suggested the use of Calendar,
You need to be careful because the first day 1 is Sunday and the first month January
Also check that you can get DAY_OF_WEEK, DAY_OF_MONTH etc

Android: Date (year,month,day) [duplicate]

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How to compare dates in Java? [duplicate]
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I want to get the date as a year, month ,day without hours or minutes or any thing else, and I don't want to get the year alone and the month and the day each by its self. Because as a full date I need it to comparison with another date
such as today 28.11.2012 and to compare it to 11.12.2011
as if today minus 11.12.2011 more than 280 day I want to execute some code

you can use SimpleDateFormat.
The basics for getting the current date
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy");
String now = df.format(new Date());
or
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy");
String now = df.format(new Date());
EDITED :
First of All you have the date in String Formate. you have to Convert into date Formate. try below code to do that. you have apply same for both the String strThatDay & strTodaDay you will get Calender Object for both.
String strThatDay = "2012/11/27";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
Date d = null;
try {
d = formatter.parse(strThatDay);//catch exception
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
Calendar thatDay = Calendar.getInstance();
thatDay.setTime(d);
after that try below code to get Day from two Date :
long diff = today.getTimeInMillis() - thatDay.getTimeInMillis(); //result in millis
long days = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
try it out. Hope it will help you.

Always use Simpledateformat(yyyy/mm/dd) for comparision..
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
String currentDateandTime = sdf.format(new Date());
Use this currentDateandTime to compare with other date.
I think this may be a solution.U have to get instance of 2 calendar (1 for current date and another for compare date.
Calendar cal1=Calendar.getInstance();
Date dt=null;
try{
dt = sdf.parse(currentDateandTime);
cal1.setTime(dt);
}catch (ParseException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
int currentDaycmp= cal1.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int currentMonthcmp=cal1.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int currentYearcmp=cal1.get(Calendar.YEAR);
Calendar cal2=Calendar.getInstance();
Date dtend=null;
try{
dtend = sdf.parse(comparedate);
cal2.setTime(dtend);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
int currentDayend= cal2.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int currentMonend=cal2.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int currentyearend=cal2.get(Calendar.YEAR);
now find the difference
currentDaycmp-currentDayend(your condition)..then execute your block..
U try this..May be meet ur requirement..

You may want to use Joda-Time for this:
final DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd.MM.yyyy");
LocalDate first = LocalDate.parse("28.11.2012", formatter);
// LocalDate first = new LocalDate(2012, 11, 28);
// LocalDate first = LocalDate.now();
LocalDate second = LocalDate.parse("11.12.2011", formatter);
int daysBetween = Days.daysBetween(first, second).getDays();
You should be aware of that daysBetween is a negative value if the second date is before the first like in this example.
For the given example daysBetween is -353.

You can use the compareTo method.
Firstly, make sure that the two dates you are using have the same format. That is, if one is YYYY,DD,MM then the other would be the same.
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-dd");
Date firstDate = sdf.parse("2012-11-27");
System.out.println(sdf.format(firstDate));
And then you would do a firsDate.compareTo(SecondDate);
if firstDate.compareTo(SecondDate) < 280 {
...
}

Calendar todayCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
Calendar pickedDateCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
todayCalendar.set(currentYear,currentMonth,currentDay);
pickedDateCalendar.set(birthDayDatePicker.getYear(),birthDayDatePicker.getMonth(),birthDayDatePicker.getDayOfMonth());
System.out.println("Days= "+daysBetween(todayCalendar.getTime(),pickedDateCalendar.getTime()));
int Days = daysBetween(todayCalendar.getTime(),pickedDateCalendar.getTime());
public int daysBetween(Date d1, Date d2){
return (int)( (d2.getTime() - d1.getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
}