Difference in days between two dates in Java?

Question

I need to find the number of days between two dates: one is from a report and one is the current date. My snippet:

  int age=calculateDiffer         


        

Answer 1

Hundred lines of code for this basic function???

Just a simple method:

protected static int calculateDayDifference(Date dateAfter, Date dateBefore){
    return (int)(dateAfter.getTime()-dateBefore.getTime())/(1000 * 60 * 60 * 24); 
    // MILLIS_IN_DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
}