I have found some similar Que's on SO but had not find the solution.
I have today's Date
as following: (Let's say this as Date1 and it's value as 2012-06-22
)
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat dateformatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date start = cal.getTime();
String currentDate=dateformatter.format(start);
I'm retrieving 4 values from the user:
- Particular Date (Assume
5
) - Particular Month (Assume
1
) - Particular Year (Assume
2012
) - No. of days (Assume
7
)
So this date, say Date2 becomes 2012-01-05
(yyyy-MM-dd) along with No. of days set to 7
.
I want to compare Date 1 and Date 2-No. of days.
I know that by using following snippet, particular no. of days can be subtracted from a calender instance.
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, -7);
But since I'm having Date2 in form of String
, I'm not able to follow this approach.
Any help appreciated.
Edit:
From your suggestions, I'll be able to convert String
to Date
by using parse
method of SimpleDateFormat
.
Now I've 2 Date
Objects.
- How do I find Difference between them in terms of
days
,months
, andyears
? - How to Subtract particular no. of days, say
7
, from a particular date, say2012-01-05
?