Difference in days between two dates in Java?

I need to find the number of days between two dates : one is from a report and one is the current date. My snippet:

  int age=calculateDifference(agingDate, today);

Here calculateDifference is a private method, agingDate and today are Date objects, just for your clarification. I've followed two articles from a Java forum, Thread 1 / Thread 2.

It works fine in a standalone program although when I include this into my logic to read from the report I get an unusual difference in values.

Why is it happening and how can I fix it?

EDIT :

I'm getting a greater number of days compared to the actual amount of Days.

public static int calculateDifference(Date a, Date b)
{
    int tempDifference = 0;
    int difference = 0;
    Calendar earlier = Calendar.getInstance();
    Calendar later = Calendar.getInstance();

    if (a.compareTo(b) < 0)
    {
        earlier.setTime(a);
        later.setTime(b);
    }
    else
    {
        earlier.setTime(b);
        later.setTime(a);
    }

    while (earlier.get(Calendar.YEAR) != later.get(Calendar.YEAR))
    {
        tempDifference = 365 * (later.get(Calendar.YEAR) - earlier.get(Calendar.YEAR));
        difference += tempDifference;

        earlier.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, tempDifference);
    }

    if (earlier.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) != later.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR))
    {
        tempDifference = later.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) - earlier.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
        difference += tempDifference;

        earlier.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, tempDifference);
    }

    return difference;
}

Note :

Unfortunately, none of the answers helped me solve the problem. I've accomplished this problem with the help of Joda-time library.

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I would suggest you use the excellent Joda Time library instead of the flawed java.util.Date and friends. You could simply write

import java.util.Date;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.Days;

Date past = new Date(110, 5, 20); // June 20th, 2010
Date today = new Date(110, 6, 24); // July 24th 
int days = Days.daysBetween(new DateTime(past), new DateTime(today)).getDays(); // => 34

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I might be too late to join the game but what the heck huh? :)

Do you think this is a threading issue? How are you using the output of this method for example? OR

Can we change your code to do something as simple as:

Calendar calendar1 = Calendar.getInstance();
    Calendar calendar2 = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar1.set(<your earlier date>);
    calendar2.set(<your current date>);
    long milliseconds1 = calendar1.getTimeInMillis();
    long milliseconds2 = calendar2.getTimeInMillis();
    long diff = milliseconds2 - milliseconds1;
    long diffSeconds = diff / 1000;
    long diffMinutes = diff / (60 * 1000);
    long diffHours = diff / (60 * 60 * 1000);
    long diffDays = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
    System.out.println("nThe Date Different Example");
    System.out.println("Time in milliseconds: " + diff
 + " milliseconds.");
    System.out.println("Time in seconds: " + diffSeconds
 + " seconds.");
    System.out.println("Time in minutes: " + diffMinutes 
+ " minutes.");
    System.out.println("Time in hours: " + diffHours 
+ " hours.");
    System.out.println("Time in days: " + diffDays 
+ " days.");
  }

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The diff / (24 * etc) does not take Timezone into account, so if your default timezone has a DST in it, it can throw the calculation off.

This link has a nice little implementation.

Here is the source of the above link in case the link goes down:

/** Using Calendar - THE CORRECT WAY**/  
public static long daysBetween(Calendar startDate, Calendar endDate) {  
  //assert: startDate must be before endDate  
  Calendar date = (Calendar) startDate.clone();  
  long daysBetween = 0;  
  while (date.before(endDate)) {  
    date.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);  
    daysBetween++;  
  }  
  return daysBetween;  
}  

and

/** Using Calendar - THE CORRECT (& Faster) WAY**/  
public static long daysBetween(final Calendar startDate, final Calendar endDate)
{
  //assert: startDate must be before endDate  
  int MILLIS_IN_DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;  
  long endInstant = endDate.getTimeInMillis();  
  int presumedDays = 
    (int) ((endInstant - startDate.getTimeInMillis()) / MILLIS_IN_DAY);  
  Calendar cursor = (Calendar) startDate.clone();  
  cursor.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, presumedDays);  
  long instant = cursor.getTimeInMillis();  
  if (instant == endInstant)  
    return presumedDays;

  final int step = instant < endInstant ? 1 : -1;  
  do {  
    cursor.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, step);  
    presumedDays += step;  
  } while (cursor.getTimeInMillis() != endInstant);  
  return presumedDays;  
}

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