How do I get difference between two dates in android?, tried every thing and post
android, date, java, kotlin, time
Solution
You're close to the right answer, you are getting the difference in milliseconds between those two dates, but when you attempt to construct a date out of that difference, it is assuming you want to create a new `Date` object with that difference value as its epoch time. If you're looking for a time in hours, then you would simply need to do some basic arithmetic on that `diff` to get the different time parts.
Java:
long diff = date1.getTime() - date2.getTime();
long seconds = diff / 1000;
long minutes = seconds / 60;
long hours = minutes / 60;
long days = hours / 24;
Kotlin:
val diff: Long = date1.getTime() - date2.getTime()
val seconds = diff / 1000
val minutes = seconds / 60
val hours = minutes / 60
val days = hours / 24
All of this math will simply do integer arithmetic, so it will truncate any decimal points
Problem
I saw all the post in here and still I can't figure how do get difference between two android dates. This is what I do: ``` long diff = date1.getTime() - date2.getTime(); Date diffDate = new Date(diff); ``` and I get: the date is Jan. 1, 1970 and the time is always bigger in two hours...I'm from Israel so the two hours is timeOffset. How can I get normal difference???