how to find differance between two dates excluding weekends

[Jaideep Kshirsagar]

Hi,

Excluding Saturday and Sunday, I want to calculate remaining days difference (count) in two given date objects. Please hit back ASAP.

[Rob Spoor]

Just an initial thought here.

First get the difference in dates including weekends:

Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();
cal1.setTime(date1);
Calendar cal2 = Calendar.getInstance();
cal2.setTime(date2);
int days = cal1.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) - cal2.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);
// if the years are different, correct it

Then subtract the number of weekends between them.

[Adam Schaible]

You may want to have a look at Joda Time, I believe some variation will be included with Java 1.7, and it makes for easy time/date calculations. I don't believe it will remove the weekends for you, but could make it a bit easier.