Number of days between two dates in Joda-Time

Question

How do I find the difference in Days between two Joda-Time DateTime instances? With ‘difference in days’ I mean if start is on Monday and end is on Tuesday I expect a return

Answer 1

java.time.Period

Use the java.time.Period class to count days.

Since Java 8 calculating the difference is more intuitive using LocalDate, LocalDateTime to represent the two dates

    LocalDate now = LocalDate.now();
    LocalDate inputDate = LocalDate.of(2018, 11, 28);

    Period period = Period.between( inputDate, now);
    int diff = period.getDays();
    System.out.println("diff = " + diff);