Java Calendar Add and Substract days to current date

Add or substract days to current date using Java Calendar This example shows how to add or substract days in current date and time values using Java Calendar class.

 import java.util.Calendar;  
 public class AddDaysToCurrentDate {  
  public static void main(String[] args) {  
   //create Calendar instance  
   Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();  
   System.out.println("Current date : " + (now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1)  
             + "-"  
             + now.get(Calendar.DATE)  
             + "-"  
             + now.get(Calendar.YEAR));  
   //add days to current date using Calendar.add method  
   now.add(Calendar.DATE,1);  
   System.out.println("date after one day : " + (now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1)  
             + "-"  
             + now.get(Calendar.DATE)  
             + "-"  
             + now.get(Calendar.YEAR));  
   //substract days from current date using Calendar.add method  
   now = Calendar.getInstance();  
   now.add(Calendar.DATE, -10);  
   System.out.println("date before 10 days : " + (now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1)  
             + "-"  
             + now.get(Calendar.DATE)  
             + "-"  
             + now.get(Calendar.YEAR));  
  }  
 }  
  

Typical output would be
Current date : 12-25-2007
date after one day : 12-26-2007
date before 10 days : 12-15-2007

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