Get minutes between two working days in Java

Question

I am trying to calculate the minutes between two Joda DateTimes or Calendars in Java. Ofcourse this would be simple if I could use the Minutes.minutesBetween function, but I

Answer 1

a pseudocode solution might look something like the below.

onSameWorkDay?

    if yes
        simple date comparison
    if no
        days = find number of whole work days between the two dates
        dayToMin = days * 8 * 60
        minDay1 = find minutes between specified start time and end of day1
        minDay2 = find minutes between start of final day and specified end time
        totalTime = dayToMin + minDay1 + minDay2