how to get the elapsed time from the beginning of a month to now in android programmatically

Question

I want to to get the elapsed time from the beginning of a month to now in android programmatically.

preferably using Calendar.getInstance().

For example today is 12/10/2018. so the duration in millisecs will be 12/01/2018 to 12/10/2018

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5351483/calculate-date-time-difference-in-java ? — mihail, Dec 10 '18 at 08:09
1) create `Date`, set it's time to beginning of month. 2) create a new `Date`, which will be now by default. 3) get miliseconds difference between them. — Vladyslav Matviienko, Dec 10 '18 at 08:23

Alex · Answer 1 · 2018-12-10T08:22:53.133

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To retrieve the beginning of the month:

val cal = Calendar.getInstance()
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0)
cal.clear(Calendar.MINUTE)
cal.clear(Calendar.SECOND)
cal.clear(Calendar.MILLISECOND)
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1)

Then to calculate elapsed in milliseconds:

val current = Calendar.getInstance()
val timePassedMilliseconds=current.timeInMillis-cal.timeInMillis

edited Dec 10 '18 at 08:22

answered Dec 10 '18 at 08:14

Alex

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '18 at 08:14

is your problem creating a new Calendar and populating it? you can create an empty one, and just populate with the fields that you are interested in.

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();

  Calendar startOfMonth = new GregorianCalendar();
    calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1); //first day of month
    calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, now.get(Calendar.MONTH));
    calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR,  now.get(Calendar.YEAR);

  timeElapsed = now.getTimeInMillis() -  startOfMonth.getTimeInMillis() ;

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '18 at 08:16

You can use calendar.set(year,month,1,0,0,0); to get the timestamp of the first day of the month.

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
Date d = new Date(1544371200000L); //12/10/2018
calendar.setTime(d);     
int year = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);
calendar.set(year,month,1,0,0,0);
Date firstDayOfMonth = calendar.getTime();
long duration = d.getTime() - firstDayOfMonth.getTime();

how to get the elapsed time from the beginning of a month to now in android programmatically

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