Of course, this wouldn't ever happen if you used Joda-Time, but not all of us are that lucky!
/**(DateUtils.MILLIS_PER_DAY is a constant, which is actually a long of size 86400000)
* Returns the number of days between the start and end of the period. Partial days are discarded. Time zone information accounted for, so be careful
*
* @return The number of whole days between the two as a positive integer.
*/
public Integer differenceInDays() {
long start = period.getStart().getTimeInMillis();
long end = period.getEnd().getTimeInMillis();
long difference = Math.abs(end - start);
return new Integer((int) (difference / DateUtils.MILLIS_PER_DAY));
}
