Joda time library getdays giving wrong result

Question

public static void main(String args[]) throws ParseException{


    String string = "May 2, 2016";
    DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
    Date date = format.parse(string);
    System.out.println(date);
    DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(date);
    DateTime currentDate = new DateTime(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
    System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
    Period p = new Period(dateTime, currentDate);
    System.out.println(p.getYears());
    System.out.println(p.getMonths());
    System.out.println(p.getDays());

}

}

Result for days is 1

expected considering today is june 10 2016 it should be 8

ohh so is it that I have always to show in years months weeks days? — ManMohan Vyas, Jun 10 '16 at 08:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '16 at 09:14

2

Nothing is wrong here, you get 1 because 8 days is one week and one day. If you want to get 8 for the "day", you have to compute it back from the week part (i.e. week * 7 + day).

answered Jun 10 '16 at 09:14

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '16 at 10:24

To get what you expect you should use another PeriodType: PeriodType.yearMonthDay().

Period p = new Period(dateTime, currentDate, PeriodType.yearMonthDay());

Currently your code uses standard (default) PeriodType, which breaks the period into years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, millis.

Joda time library getdays giving wrong result

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