用这个:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");

Date d1 = format.parse(strStartTime);
Date d2 = format.parse(strEndTime);

long diff = d2.getTime() - d1.getTime();
long diffSeconds,diffMinutes,diffHours;

if (diff > 0) {
diffSeconds = diff / 1000 % 60;
diffMinutes = diff / (60 * 1000) % 60;
diffHours = diff / (60 * 60 * 1000);
}
else{
long diffpos = (24*((60 * 60 * 1000))) + diff;
diffSeconds = diffpos / 1000 % 60;
diffMinutes = diffpos / (60 * 1000) % 60;
diffHours = (diffpos / (60 * 60 * 1000));
}

(同样重要的是，例如，如果startTime是23:00,endTime是1:00，则持续时间为2:00。)

“else”部分可以得到正确的答案

如果您正在编写一个必须处理持续时间的应用程序，那么请查看Joda-Time，它有专门处理持续时间、间隔和周期的类。你的getDuration()方法看起来可以返回一个Joda-Time Interval:

DateTime start = new DateTime(2004, 12, 25, 0, 0, 0, 0);
DateTime end = new DateTime(2005, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);

public Interval getInterval() {
    Interval interval = new Interval(start, end);
}

Java提供了静态方法System.currentTimeMillis()。这返回一个长值，所以这是一个很好的参考。很多其他类也接受'timeInMillis'形参，这个形参也很长。

许多人发现使用Joda Time库更容易计算日期和时间。

值得注意的是

System.currentTimeMillis() has only millisecond accuracy at best. At worth its can be 16 ms on some windows systems. It has a lower cost that alternatives < 200 ns. System.nanoTime() is only micro-second accurate on most systems and can jump on windows systems by 100 microseconds (i.e sometimes it not as accurate as it appears) Calendar is a very expensive way to calculate time. (i can think of apart from XMLGregorianCalendar) Sometimes its the most appropriate solution but be aware you should only time long intervals.

如果你喜欢使用Java的日历API，你可以试试这个，

Date startingTime = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
//later on
Date now = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
long timeElapsed = now.getTime() - startingTime.getTime();

你的新类:

public class TimeWatch {    
    long starts;

    public static TimeWatch start() {
        return new TimeWatch();
    }

    private TimeWatch() {
        reset();
    }

    public TimeWatch reset() {
        starts = System.currentTimeMillis();
        return this;
    }

    public long time() {
        long ends = System.currentTimeMillis();
        return ends - starts;
    }

    public long time(TimeUnit unit) {
        return unit.convert(time(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
    }
}

用法:

    TimeWatch watch = TimeWatch.start();
    // do something
    long passedTimeInMs = watch.time();
    long passedTimeInSeconds = watch.time(TimeUnit.SECONDS);

之后，所经过的时间可以转换为任何你喜欢的格式，例如日历

Greetz, 查德