Get difference between two dates in months using Java

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I need to get difference between two dates using Java  I need my result to be in months   Example       Startdate   2013-04-03             enddate   2013-05-03             Result should be 1   if the interval is      Startdate   2013-04-03             enddate   2014-04-03             Result should be 12   Using the following code I can get the results in days  How can I get in months   Date startDate   new Date 2013 2 2   Date endDate   new Date 2013 3 2   int difInDays    int    endDate getTime   - startDate getTime     1000 60 60 24

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If you can t use JodaTime  you can do the following   Calendar startCalendar   new GregorianCalendar    startCalendar setTime startDate   Calendar endCalendar   new GregorianCalendar    endCalendar setTime endDate    int diffYear   endCalendar get Calendar YEAR  - startCalendar get Calendar YEAR   int diffMonth   diffYear   12   endCalendar get Calendar MONTH  - startCalendar get Calendar MONTH     Note that if your dates are 2013-01-31 and 2013-02-01  you get a distance of 1 month this way  which may or may not be what you want

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You can try this   Calendar sDate   Calendar getInstance    Calendar eDate   Calendar getInstance    sDate setTime startDate getTime     eDate setTime endDate getTime     int difInMonths   sDate get Calendar MONTH  - eDate get Calendar MONTH     I think this should work  I used something similar for my project and it worked for what I needed  year diff   You get a Calendar from a Date and just get the month s diff

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You can use Joda time library for Java  It would be much easier to calculate time-diff between dates with it   Sample snippet for time-diff   Days d   Days daysBetween startDate  endDate   int days   d getDays

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