Android/Java Time difference ISO 8601 with Now

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I have an ISO 8601 time string and want to calculate the time difference to now in minutes without using joda time. How is this done?

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And a dup of [this](http://stackoverflow.com/q/567659/642706) and many others. — Basil Bourque, Mar 30 '16 at 19:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '12 at 10:20

Parse it using SimpleDateFormat to get a Date, get the milliseconds-since-unix-epoch of that using Date.getTime(), then compare with System.currentTimeMillis().

If your ISO-8601 strings contain a time zone offset as something like "-08:00" (which they certainly can), you'll need to remove the colon first, and use the Z format specifier in SimpleDateFormat. (In Java 7 you could use X, but that's not available in Android's version of SimpleDateFormat as far as I'm aware.)

Note that I had to drop the "Z" in the SimpleDateFormat format for things to work. — mraviator, Mar 16 '12 at 13:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '12 at 22:21

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What about javax.xml.datatype.Duration as returned by javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory?

answered Aug 01 '12 at 22:21

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Never mind: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14379 – Sofi Software LLC Aug 02 '12 at 22:54
I ended up copying the file org/apache/axis/types/Duration.java, with a few modifications. – Sofi Software LLC Aug 02 '12 at 23:06

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