Financial Periods Helper Method

Question

Hello,
I am looking to create a java helper method to us in my SAO layer of an applciation that I am working on and need a helper method to determine the number of financial periods that 2 dates have. For example, if my start date is 01/01/2006 and the end date is 01/07/2008, then this method should return 3 as an int data type representing the number of financial periods that fall between the start and end date. A financial year starts on 1-Jul and ends 30-Jun.
Thanking you in advance.

Answer 1

Here's a similar example I used for something else:
  DateFormat df1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy");
  Date start = null;
  Date end = null;
  try {
    start = df.parse("01/01/2006");
    end = df.parse("01/07/2008");
  } catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar(Locale.getDefault());
  c.setTime(start);
  int numPeriods = 0;
  while (c.getTime().getTime() <= end.getTime()) {
    c.add(Calendar.MONTH, 13);
    numPeriods++;
  }Obviously you'd need to adapt this to your problem, which is a bit more complicated in that you need to check dates in relation to the fin year start / end etc.
- Lance