{"id":714,"date":"2010-05-14T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2thenew.today\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2016-12-19T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T09:34:55","slug":"grails-date-difference-with-finer-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2thenew.today\/blog\/grails-date-difference-with-finer-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Grails : Difference b\/w two dates with fine-grained details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Friends,<\/p>\n

To retrieve difference between two dates with finer details which would display their difference as 2 years 7 weeks 3 days 2 hours 5 mins ago is given below.<\/p>\n

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\r\n \/**\r\n   * Returns differnce b\/w new Date and old date as Map holding difference in years, weeks, days, hrs, mins & secs \r\n   *\/\r\n  public static Map getDiffernceInDates(Date oldDate, Date newDate = new Date()) {\r\n    Long difference = newDate.time - oldDate.time\r\n    Map diffMap =[:]\r\n    difference = difference \/ 1000\r\n    diffMap.seconds = difference % 60\r\n    difference = (difference - diffMap.seconds) \/ 60\r\n    diffMap.minutes = difference % 60\r\n    difference = (difference - diffMap.minutes) \/ 60\r\n    diffMap.hours = difference % 24\r\n    difference = (difference - diffMap.hours) \/ 24\r\n    diffMap.years = (difference \/ 365).toInteger()\r\n    if(diffMap.years)\r\n       difference = (difference) % 365\r\n    diffMap.days = difference % 7\r\n    diffMap.weeks = (difference - diffMap.days) \/ 7  \r\n    return diffMap\r\n  }\r\n  \r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The taglib to display the date difference in detail is given below <\/p>\n
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\r\ndef timeDiffInDetail = {attrs ->\r\n        Map diff = DateUtil.getDiffernceInDates(attrs.oldDate, attrs.newDate ?: new Date())\r\n        String result =  diff.years ? diff.years + \" years \" : \"\"\r\n        result += diff.weeks ? diff.weeks + \" weeks \" : \"\"\r\n        result += diff.days ? diff.days + \" days \" : \"\"\r\n        result += diff.hours ? diff.hours + \" hours \" : \"\"\r\n        result += diff.minutes ? diff.minutes + \" minutes ago\" : \"\"\r\n        if (result)\r\n          out << result\r\n        else\r\n          out << \" 0 minutes ago\"\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Hope this helpled!<\/p>\n
Cheers!<\/p>\n
~~Amit Jain~~
\namit@intelligrape.com
\nhttps:\/\/2thenew.today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi Friends, To retrieve difference between two dates with finer details which would display their difference as 2 years 7 weeks 3 days 2 hours 5 mins ago is given below. \/** * Returns differnce b\/w new Date and old date as Map holding difference in years, weeks, days, hrs, mins & secs *\/ public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":26,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[241,4840,9],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grails","tag-date-difference","tag-grails","tag-groovy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t