工具方法：JAVA计算两个日期之前相差的天数

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计算两个日期之前的天数

package com.taray.util;
import java.text.ParseException;  
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;  
import java.util.Calendar;  
import java.util.Date; 

public class Test {
    /** 
     * @param args 
     * @throws ParseException  
     */  
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {  
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub  
        SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");  
        Date d1=sdf.parse("2012-09-08 10:10:10");  
        Date d2=sdf.parse("2013-09-12 00:00:00");  
        System.out.println(daysBetween(d1,d2));  
        System.out.println(daysBetween("2012-09-08 10:10:10","2012-09-15 00:00:00"));  
        System.out.println(daysBetween(d1, new Date()));
    }  
       
    /**  
     * 计算两个日期之间相差的天数  
     * @param smdate 较小的时间 
     * @param bdate  较大的时间 
     * @return 相差天数 
     * @throws ParseException  
     */    
    public static int daysBetween(Date smdate,Date bdate) throws ParseException    
    {    
        SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");  
        smdate=sdf.parse(sdf.format(smdate));  
        bdate=sdf.parse(sdf.format(bdate));  
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();    
        cal.setTime(smdate);    
        long time1 = cal.getTimeInMillis();                 
        cal.setTime(bdate);    
        long time2 = cal.getTimeInMillis();         
        long between_days=(time2-time1)/(1000*3600*24);  
      	return Integer.parseInt(String.valueOf(between_days));           
    }    
       
	/** 
	*字符串的日期格式的计算 
	*/  
    public static int daysBetween(String smdate,String bdate) throws ParseException{  
        SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");  
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();    
        cal.setTime(sdf.parse(smdate));    
        long time1 = cal.getTimeInMillis();                 
        cal.setTime(sdf.parse(bdate));    
        long time2 = cal.getTimeInMillis();         
        long between_days=(time2-time1)/(1000*3600*24);  
        return Integer.parseInt(String.valueOf(between_days));     
    }  
}