How do I get the last date of a month?

By Wayan in Core API, Util Package 0 Comment

You want to know what is the last date for a current month. The code below show you how to get it.

package org.kodejava.util;

import java.util.Calendar;

public class LastDateOfMonth {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Get a calendar instance
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();

        // Get the last date of the current month. To get the last date for 
        // a specific month you can set the calendar month using calendar 
        // object calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, theMonth) method.
        int lastDate = calendar.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DATE);

        // Print the current date and the last date of the month
        System.out.println("Date     : " + calendar.getTime());
        System.out.println("Last Date: " + lastDate);
    }
}

Here is the result of the code snippet:

Date     : Fri Sep 24 06:42:18 CST 2021
Last Date: 30

How do I convert day-of-the-year to date?

By Wayan in Core API, Util Package 4 Comments

In the following example we want to get the date of the specified day-of-the-year. We can define a calendar for a specific day of the year by setting the java.util.Calendar object DAY_OF_YEAR field using the set() method. The method take the field to be set and a value.

package org.kodejava.util;

import java.util.Calendar;

public class DayOfYearToDate {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // In the example we want to get the date value of the specified
        // day of the year. Using the calendar object we can define our
        // calendar for a specific day of the year.
        int dayOfYear = 112;
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, dayOfYear);
        System.out.println("Day " + dayOfYear + " of the current year = "
                + calendar.getTime());

        // If you want to get the date for a specific day of year and for
        // a specific year, you can also pass the year information to the
        // calendar object.
        int year = 2020;
        calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
        calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, dayOfYear);
        System.out.println("Day " + dayOfYear + " in year " + year
                + " = " + calendar.getTime());
    }
}

And here is an example result of the code above:

Day 112 of the current year = Thu Apr 22 06:34:14 CST 2021
Day 112 in year 2020 = Tue Apr 21 06:34:14 CST 2020

How do I calculate difference in days between two dates?

By Wayan in Core API, Util Package 3 Comments

In the following example we are going to calculate the differences between two dates. First, we will need to convert the date into the corresponding value in milliseconds and then do the math, so we can get the difference in days, hours, minutes, etc.

For example to get the difference in day we will need to divide the difference in milliseconds with (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000).

package org.kodejava.util;

import java.util.Calendar;

public class DateDifferenceExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Creates two calendars instances
        Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();
        Calendar cal2 = Calendar.getInstance();

        // Set the date for both of the calendar instance
        cal1.set(2020, Calendar.DECEMBER, 30);
        cal2.set(2021, Calendar.SEPTEMBER, 21);

        // Get the represented date in milliseconds
        long millis1 = cal1.getTimeInMillis();
        long millis2 = cal2.getTimeInMillis();

        // Calculate difference in milliseconds
        long diff = millis2 - millis1;

        // Calculate difference in seconds
        long diffSeconds = diff / 1000;

        // Calculate difference in minutes
        long diffMinutes = diff / (60 * 1000);

        // Calculate difference in hours
        long diffHours = diff / (60 * 60 * 1000);

        // Calculate difference in days
        long diffDays = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);

        System.out.println("In milliseconds: " + diff + " milliseconds.");
        System.out.println("In seconds: " + diffSeconds + " seconds.");
        System.out.println("In minutes: " + diffMinutes + " minutes.");
        System.out.println("In hours: " + diffHours + " hours.");
        System.out.println("In days: " + diffDays + " days.");
    }
}

Here is the result:

In milliseconds: 22896000016 milliseconds.
In seconds: 22896000 seconds.
In minutes: 381600 minutes.
In hours: 6360 hours.
In days: 265 days.

The better way to get number of days between two dates is to use the Joda Time API. In the following example you can see how to calculate date difference using Joda Time: How do I get number of days between two dates in Joda Time?.

How do I convert Date to String?

By Wayan in Core API, Text Package 1 Comment 
package org.kodejava.text;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateToString {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create an instance of SimpleDateFormat used for formatting
        // the string representation of date (day/month/year)
        String pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy";
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);

        // Get the date today using Calendar object.
        Date today = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();

        // Using DateFormat format method we can create a string
        // representation of a date with the defined format.
        String reportDate = df.format(today);

        // Print what date is today!
        System.out.println("Report Date: " + reportDate);

        // Using Java 8.
        // Creates a DateTimeFormatter using the ofPattern() method. Get
        // the current date by calling the .now() method of LocalDate.
        // To convert to string use the format() method of the LocalDate
        // and pass the formatter object as argument.
        DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(pattern);
        LocalDate now = LocalDate.now();
        reportDate = now.format(formatter);
        System.out.println("Report Date: " + reportDate);
    }
}

How do I add or subtract a date?

By Wayan in Core API, Util Package 1 Comment

The java.util.Calendar allows us to do a date arithmetic function such as add or subtract a unit of time to the specified date field.

The method that done this process is the Calendar.add(int field, int amount). Where the value of the field can be Calendar.DATE, Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.YEAR. So this mean if you want to subtract in days, months or years use Calendar.DATE, Calendar.MONTH or Calendar.YEAR respectively.

package org.kodejava.util;

import java.util.Calendar;

public class CalendarAddExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

        System.out.println("Today : " + cal.getTime());

        // Subtract 30 days from the calendar
        cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -30);
        System.out.println("30 days ago: " + cal.getTime());

        // Add 10 months to the calendar
        cal.add(Calendar.MONTH, 10);
        System.out.println("10 months later: " + cal.getTime());

        // Subtract 1 year from the calendar
        cal.add(Calendar.YEAR, -1);
        System.out.println("1 year ago: " + cal.getTime());
    }
}

In the code above we want to know what is the date back to 30 days ago. The sample result of the code is shown below:

Today : Wed Sep 15 17:58:49 CST 2021
30 days ago: Mon Aug 16 17:58:49 CST 2021
10 months later: Thu Jun 16 17:58:49 CST 2022
1 year ago: Wed Jun 16 17:58:49 CST 2021