Using Date.getTime() to calculate the number of nanoseconds in a day. The google shows 86400 seconds or 86400000 nanoseconds in a day.
I measure every day in April, I notice the gap between 2022-04-3 and 2022-04-4 is 90000000. Why Date.getTime() return wrong results for 2022-04-3 and 2022-04-4?
public static void intervalTest(){
System.out.format("date today.getTime() tomorrow.getTime() interval \n");
for (int i=1;i<30;i ){
Date d1 = new Date();
d1.setMonth(3);
d1.setDate(i);
d1.setHours(0);
d1.setMinutes(0);
d1.setSeconds(0);
Date d2 = new Date();
d2.setMonth(3);
d2.setDate(i 1);
d2.setHours(0);
d2.setMinutes(0);
d2.setSeconds(0);
long d1seconds = d1.getTime();
long d2seconds = d2.getTime();
long diff = (d2seconds - d1seconds);
System.out.format("2022-04-%d %d %d %d\n",i,d1seconds,d2seconds,diff);
}
}
date today.getTime() tomorrow.getTime() interval
2022-04-1 1648731600348 1648818000353 86400005
2022-04-2 1648818000354 1648904400354 86400000
2022-04-3 1648904400354 1648994400354 90000000 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
2022-04-4 1648994400354 1649080800354 86400000
2022-04-5 1649080800355 1649167200355 86400000
2022-04-6 1649167200355 1649253600355 86400000
2022-04-7 1649253600355 1649340000355 86400000
2022-04-8 1649340000356 1649426400356 86400000
2022-04-9 1649426400356 1649512800356 86400000
2022-04-10 1649512800356 1649599200356 86400000
2022-04-11 1649599200357 1649685600357 86400000
2022-04-12 1649685600357 1649772000357 86400000
2022-04-13 1649772000357 1649858400357 86400000
2022-04-14 1649858400357 1649944800357 86400000
2022-04-15 1649944800358 1650031200358 86400000
2022-04-16 1650031200358 1650117600358 86400000
2022-04-17 1650117600358 1650204000358 86400000
2022-04-18 1650204000358 1650290400358 86400000
2022-04-19 1650290400359 1650376800359 86400000
2022-04-20 1650376800359 1650463200359 86400000
2022-04-21 1650463200359 1650549600359 86400000
2022-04-22 1650549600359 1650636000359 86400000
2022-04-23 1650636000360 1650722400360 86400000
2022-04-24 1650722400360 1650808800360 86400000
2022-04-25 1650808800360 1650895200360 86400000
2022-04-26 1650895200361 1650981600361 86400000
2022-04-27 1650981600361 1651068000361 86400000
2022-04-28 1651068000361 1651154400361 86400000
2022-04-29 1651154400362 1651240800362 86400000
More interestingly 2022-04-3 1am to 2 am return 7200004 nanoseconds or 7200 seconds, while 12am to 1am return 3600 seconds.
public static void simpleTest(){
Date d1 = new Date();
d1.setMonth(3);
d1.setDate(3);
d1.setHours(0);
d1.setMinutes(0);
d1.setSeconds(0);
Date d2 = new Date();
d2.setMonth(3);
d2.setDate(3);
d2.setHours(1);
d2.setMinutes(0);
d2.setSeconds(0);
long d1seconds = d1.getTime();
long d2seconds = d2.getTime();
long diff = (d2seconds - d1seconds);
System.out.format(d1.toString() "|" d2.toString() "|Interval\n");
System.out.format(" %d %d %d\n",d1seconds,d2seconds,diff);
}
Sun Apr 03 00:00:00 AEDT 2022|Sun Apr 03 01:00:00 AEDT 2022|Interval
1648904400605 1648908000611 3600006
Sun Apr 03 01:00:00 AEDT 2022|Sun Apr 03 02:00:00 AEST 2022|Interval
1648908000720 1648915200724 7200004<<<<<<<<<<<
CodePudding user response:
Daylight savings time.
All those warnings you ignored? Don't ignore them. Date is a total lie.
It is not a date. It does not represent a date. It represents a moment in time. If you fail to heed these warnings and you attempt to treat it as a date, bugs and problems ensue.
There is no way to use Date to do date math. It just isn't suitable for it.
Use java.time
and friends. You can pick your timezones, use sensible methods. There are no methods that don't make sense in anything in the java.time
package.
Note that as a general point, 'how many nanoseconds are in a day' is not an answerable question. Days have variable lengths. Most days are 24 hours. Some are 23. Some are 25. Some don't exist (I guess that means they have 0 nanoseconds? I'm not talking about December 35th. I'm talking about real dates that were just skipped. For example when a country decides to move to the other side of the date line or when e.g. Russia decided to shift from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar and therefore skipped half of a februari to match up dates).
You can talk about the general concept of a day, and say that it has exactly 24 hours. You can talk about the average if you want, too. But that is not quite exactly 24 hours, and then you must bring in '... where on the planet and in what era?'.
Perhaps take a step back. What ARE you trying to accomplish?
Examples of answerable questions:
- How many nanos are in 24 hours. (Because 24 hours, unlike 'a day', is a precise definition).
- How many nanos are there in April 21st, 2022, in zone Europe/Amsterdam.
- How many nanos are there in an average day for all days in the year 2022 in zone America/New York.
- How many nanos are there in a sidereal year.
CodePudding user response:
Because April 3 is when New Zealand (and possibly other locations) ends Daylight Savings Time. Thus the clock adds one extra hour.