Adding days to a date in Java

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How do I add x days to a date in Java   For example  my date is  dd mm yyyy    01 01 2012  Adding 5 days  the output should be 06 01 2012

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Here is some simple code to give output as currentdate   D days   some  x  date  future date    DateFormat dateFormat   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy     Calendar c   Calendar getInstance        c add Calendar DATE  5   System out println dateFormat format c getTime

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Simple  without any other API   To add 8 days   Date today new Date    long ltime today getTime   8 24 60 60 1000  Date today8 new Date ltime

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java time  With the Java 8 Date and Time API you can use the LocalDate class   LocalDate now   plusDays nrOfDays    See the Oracle Tutorial

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If you re using Joda-Time  and there are lots of good reasons to - a simple  intuitive API and thread-safety  then you can do this trivially   new LocalDate    plusDays 5    to give 5 days from today  for example  EDIT  My current advice would be to now use the Java 8 date time api

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Calendar cal   Calendar getInstance        cal set Calendar DAY OF MONTH  1   cal set Calendar MONTH  1   cal set Calendar YEAR  2012   cal add Calendar DAY OF MONTH  5     You can also substract days like Calendar add Calendar DAY OF MONTH  -5

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SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy    Calendar c   Calendar getInstance    c setTime new Date        Now use today date  c add Calendar DATE  5      Adding 5 days String output   sdf format c getTime     System out println output

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