Period between(LocalDate startDateInclusive, LocalDate endDateExclusive) example
Description
Period between(LocalDate startDateInclusive,
LocalDate endDateExclusive) creates a Period consisting of the number of years, months, and days between two dates.
Syntax
between has the following syntax.
public static Period between(LocalDate startDateInclusive, LocalDate endDateExclusive)
Example
The following example shows how to use between.
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.Month;
import java.time.Period;
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
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public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Period p = Period.between(LocalDate.of(2009, Month.JANUARY, 21),LocalDate.of(2019, Month.JANUARY, 21));
System.out.println(p.get(ChronoUnit.DAYS));
LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
LocalDate birthday = LocalDate.of(1960, Month.JANUARY, 1);
LocalDate nextBDay = birthday.withYear(today.getYear());
nextBDay = nextBDay.plusYears(1);
p = Period.between(today, nextBDay);
long p2 = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between(today, nextBDay);
System.out.println(p.getMonths() + " months");
System.out.println(p.getDays() + " days");
}
}
The code above generates the following result.
