Date difference in scala [duplicate]

Question

I need a function to find the difference(in number of days)between two dates in "yyyy-mm-dd" format.

val basedate = "1970-01-01"
val currdate = "2015-02-25"
val diff = currdate - basedate

Please suggest.

Answer 1

i think You are searching something like this

import java.time.LocalDate 
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter

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val startDate = "1970-01-01" 
val formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd")
val oldDate = LocalDate.parse(startDate, formatter)
val currentDate = "2015-02-25"
val newDate = LocalDate.parse(currentDate, formatter)
println(newDate.toEpochDay() - oldDate.toEpochDay())