Get the number of weeks between two Dates.

Question

Im working in a project and I got two types in Date. I want to calculate the number of weeks between these two dates. The dates can be in diffrent years. Is there any good solution for this?

I have tried to implemenent this with Joda-time which was suggested in other topics..

Im not familar with this library, but I tried to do something like this:

public static int getNumberOfWeeks(Date f, Date l){
    Calendar c1 = Calendar.getInstance();
    Calendar c2 = Calendar.getInstance();
    c1.setTime(f);
    c2.setTime(l);
    DateTime start = new DateTime(c1.YEAR, c1.MONTH, c1.DAY_OF_MONTH, 0, 0, 0, 0);
    DateTime end   = new DateTime(c2.YEAR, c2.MONTH, c2.DAY_OF_MONTH, 0, 0, 0, 0);
    Interval interval = new Interval(start, end);
    Period p = interval.toPeriod();
    return p.getWeeks();
}

But this is completely wrong... any suggestions ?

Answer 1

Updating answer to account for Java 8

// TechTrip - ASSUMPTION d1 is earlier than d2
// leave that for exercise
public static long getFullWeeks(Calendar d1, Calendar d2){

    Instant d1i = Instant.ofEpochMilli(d1.getTimeInMillis());
    Instant d2i = Instant.ofEpochMilli(d2.getTimeInMillis());

    LocalDateTime startDate = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(d1i, ZoneId.systemDefault());
    LocalDateTime endDate = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(d2i, ZoneId.systemDefault());

    return ChronoUnit.WEEKS.between(startDate, endDate);
}