How to calculate the number of days in a period?

Question

For the following Period calculation:

Period.between(LocalDate.of(2015, 8, 1), LocalDate.of(2015, 9, 2))

the result is:

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Answer 1

From the documentation:

To define an amount of time with date-based values (years, months, days), use the Period class. The Period class provides various get methods, such as getMonths, getDays, and getYears.To present the amount >of time measured in a single unit of time, such as days, you can use the ChronoUnit.between method.

LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
LocalDate birthday = LocalDate.of(1960, Month.JANUARY, 1);

Period p = Period.between(birthday, today);
long p2 = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between(birthday, today);
System.out.println("You are " + p.getYears() + " years, " + p.getMonths() +
                   " months, and " + p.getDays() +
                   " days old. (" + p2 + " days total)");

The code produces output similar to the following:

You are 53 years, 4 months, and 29 days old. (19508 days total)