Analog of ORACLE function MONTHS_BETWEEN in Java

Question

Does Java have some analog of Oracle\'s function MONTHS_BETWEEN?

Answer 1

I had to migrate some Oracle code to java and haven't found the analog for months_between oracle function. While testing listed examples found some cases when they produce wrong results.

So, created my own function. Created 1600+ tests comparing results of db vs my function, including dates with time component - all work fine.

Hope, this can help someone.

public static double oracle_months_between(Timestamp endDate,Timestamp startDate) {

    //MONTHS_BETWEEN returns number of months between dates date1 and date2.
    // If date1 is later than date2, then the result is positive.
    // If date1 is earlier than date2, then the result is negative.
    // If date1 and date2 are either the same days of the month or both last days of months, then the result is always an integer.
    // Otherwise Oracle Database calculates the fractional portion of the result based on a 31-day month and considers the difference in time components date1 and date2.

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
    String endDateString = sdf.format(endDate), startDateString = sdf.format(startDate);

    int startDateYear = Integer.parseInt(startDateString.substring(0,4)), startDateMonth = Integer.parseInt(startDateString.substring(5,7)), startDateDay = Integer.parseInt(startDateString.substring(8,10));
    int endDateYear = Integer.parseInt(endDateString.substring(0,4)), endDateMonth = Integer.parseInt(endDateString.substring(5,7)), endDateDay = Integer.parseInt(endDateString.substring(8,10));

    boolean endDateLDM = is_last_day(endDate), startDateLDM = is_last_day(startDate);

    int diffMonths = -startDateYear*12 - startDateMonth + endDateYear * 12 + endDateMonth;

    if (endDateLDM && startDateLDM || extract_day(startDate) == extract_day(endDate)){
        // If date1 and date2 are either the same days of the month or both last days of months, then the result is always an integer.
        return (double)(diffMonths);
    }

    double diffDays = (endDateDay - startDateDay)/31.;

    Timestamp dStart = Timestamp.valueOf("1970-01-01 " + startDateString.substring(11)), dEnd = Timestamp.valueOf("1970-01-01 " + endDateString.substring(11));

    return diffMonths + diffDays + (dEnd.getTime()-dStart.getTime())/1000./3600./24./31.;
}

public static boolean is_last_day(Timestamp ts){
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.setTime(ts);
    int max = calendar.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
    return max == Integer.parseInt((new SimpleDateFormat("dd").format(ts)));
}