calculate the seconds

[Per Lovdinger]

I want to calculate the exact number of seconds between 2 times
in this format: String yyyymmddmmss.
public int secondsBeteen(String fromTime,String toTime)

Anyone that have a good approach for this ?

thanks in advance
Per

[Rene Liebmann]

Yes, you have to use DateFormat or better SimpleDateFormat to be able to parse your input and to get a Date. This Date you can put into a Calendar, which has the function getTimeInMillis(). This you have to do for both date values.
It is easy to substract both millis and to calculate seconds from it.
This sounds a bit strange, but in fact it will be not more than 20 lines of code or maybe less. Even much better, than calculating all by yourself.