Calculate the number of days between two dates in Java 1.8

dates1.8.java

// input dates
final String start = "2010-01-15";
final String end = "2011-03-18";
// parse the dates
final LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.parse( start );
final LocalDate endDate = LocalDate.parse( end );
// calculate the number of days between start and end dates
long daysDuration = ChronoUnit.DAYS.between( startDate , endDate );