In this program, you’ll learn to calculate the difference between two time periods in Java.
Example: Calculate Difference Between Two Time Periods
public class Time { int seconds; int minutes; int hours; public Time(int hours, int minutes, int seconds) { this.hours = hours; this.minutes = minutes; this.seconds = seconds; } public static void main(String[] args) { // create objects of Time class Time start = new Time(8, 12, 15); Time stop = new Time(12, 34, 55); Time diff; // call difference method diff = difference(start, stop); System.out.printf("TIME DIFFERENCE: %d:%d:%d - ", start.hours, start.minutes, start.seconds); System.out.printf("%d:%d:%d ", stop.hours, stop.minutes, stop.seconds); System.out.printf("= %d:%d:%d\n", diff.hours, diff.minutes, diff.seconds); } public static Time difference(Time start, Time stop) { Time diff = new Time(0, 0, 0); // if start second is greater // convert minute of stop into seconds // and add seconds to stop second if(start.seconds > stop.seconds){ --stop.minutes; stop.seconds += 60; } diff.seconds = stop.seconds - start.seconds; // if start minute is greater // convert stop hour into minutes // and add minutes to stop minutes if(start.minutes > stop.minutes){ --stop.hours; stop.minutes += 60; } diff.minutes = stop.minutes - start.minutes; diff.hours = stop.hours - start.hours; // return the difference time return(diff); } }
Output
TIME DIFFERENCE: 12:34:55 - 8:12:15 = 4:22:40
In the above program, we’ve created a class named Time
with three member variables: hours, minutes, and seconds. As the name suggests, they store hours, minutes and seconds of a given time respectively.
The Time
class has a constructor that initializes the value of hours, minutes, and seconds.
We’ve also created a static function difference that takes two Time
variables as parameters, find the difference and returns it as Time
class.