Get total days from Period

Question

I have Period object which comes from api. I have to calculate total days it contains. I found many answers how to get days between two dates, but no one answers how I can get total days exactly from Period object.

E.g:

LocalDate start = LocalDate.now();
LocalDate end = LocalDate.now().plusYears(1);

Period period = Period.between(start, end);

I have only the last object with name period and i have to get 365 days from it.

getDays() returns only days count within one month. And I don't have two dates objects. Only period.

What about [`Period.getDays()`](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/Period.html#getDays--)? Can you show us your code that calculates the total days? — deHaar, Apr 24 '19 at 13:49
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/datetime/iso/period.html — Tim Biegeleisen, Apr 24 '19 at 13:50
@HusamBdr again, this question answers how to get days, months and years in period. but I have to get TOTAL days from it. and i don't have these dates. only period — Squeez, Apr 24 '19 at 14:02
@Squeez HusamBdr's the critical answer from HusamBdr's link is [this one](https://stackoverflow.com/a/30833785/424903). You can't will the Period class into being what you want it to be, it simply isn't. — Gimby, Apr 24 '19 at 14:08
@Squeez What do you mean by *TOTAL days*? The amount of days in a period? — deHaar, Apr 24 '19 at 14:13
@Squeez Yes, I have seen that... And the method I suggested does not do that... Sorry... — deHaar, Apr 24 '19 at 14:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '19 at 14:23

You might wanna read up on the Period Java API Documentation. Period represents the time duration in this format, "2 years, 3 months and 4 days" For your case above, its exactly 1 year, 0 Months and 0 days. When you do a get Days, it will show you 0 days.

Try with an end date of LocalDate end = LocalDate.now().minusDays(398); The getYears(), getMonths(), getDays() each returns its own value. ;)

Since you already have a Period object, you can do a function to get the number of days from a Period Object using the getYears, getMonths and getDays() methods then sum them together.

The Duration object might help with that.

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 24 '19 at 14:13

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did you tried import java.time package and use Period class? if you didn't, here's a little help for it https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/Period.html

answered Apr 24 '19 at 14:13

Dave Butcher

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OP obviously did... – deHaar Apr 24 '19 at 14:17

Get total days from Period

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