Calculating weekday and weekend dates..Urgent

I have been trying to figure out how to calculate weekend and weekday rates for a project but no luck. So hopefully someone can offer a little assistance.. this is my scenario..

A user enters in the date that a furniture item is returned as a string.
the user also enters in the date it was due..
now supposed the furniture was due on 5/9/05 and returned on 5/18/05 i have 9 days the furniture is late. There is also different rates for weekends and weekdays. my problem is how do i first calculate the difference between the two dates.. then distinguish between weekend and weekday so that i could multiply those dates by the appropriate rates and produce a receipt...
Any help would be appreciated...Im stuck!!

Take a look at the java.util.Calendar class. There are methods which can tell you what day of the week a particular date is.

Henry

You must be one hell of a tycoon.
A furniture store owner in this thread

and video store owner here
[ May 07, 2005: Message edited by: Michael Dunn ]

In the other thread i actually said video rental instead of furniture rental. I was thinking of two things at one time..