Get hour from date() in java [duplicate]

January 17, 2019, at 06:40 AM

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for comparison hours I need to get them out Date(). I have two dates I need to find the difference in them exactly in the hours

Date date1 = new Date();
Date date2 = new Date();
System.out.println(date1.getHours()-date2.getHours());

I understand it is not correct code, but need something like that

Answer 1

Mathematical manipulation of date/times values is ignorant and possibly the worst thing you can do. There are a lot of rules which surround date/time manipulation, which is best left to a decent and well tested API.

Since Java 8, you should be using the java.time API or it's backport for earlier versions.

For example...

Instant now = Instant.now();
Instant then = now.minus(2, ChronoUnit.DAYS);
System.out.println(Duration.between(then, now).toHours());

which prints 48

Answer 2

Get the seconds difference, and then just convert seconds to hours.

var startDate = new Date();
var endDate = new Date();
var seconds = (endDate.getTime() - startDate.getTime()) / 1000;
// 3.557 seconds difference between the two times
var hourDiff = seconds / 60 / 60;
// 0.0009880555555555556 hours..

Wrapped into function:

function getHourDiff(date1, date2) {
    var seconds = (date1.getTime() - date2.getTime()) / 1000;
    return seconds / 60 / 60;
}

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