I'm working with a date in this format: yyyy-mm-dd.
How can I increment this date by one day?
Something like this should do the trick:
String dt = "2008-01-01"; // Start date
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.setTime(sdf.parse(dt));
c.add(Calendar.DATE, 1); // number of days to add
dt = sdf.format(c.getTime()); // dt is now the new date
UPDATE (May 2021): This is a really outdated answer for old, old Java. For Java 8 and above, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/20906602/314283
Java does appear to be well behind the eight-ball compared to C#. This utility method shows the way to do in Java SE 6 using the Calendar.add method (presumably the only easy way).
public class DateUtil
{
public static Date addDays(Date date, int days)
{
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, days); //minus number would decrement the days
return cal.getTime();
}
}
To add one day, per the question asked, call it as follows:
String sourceDate = "2012-02-29";
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date myDate = format.parse(sourceDate);
myDate = DateUtil.addDays(myDate, 1);
java.time
On Java 8 and later, the java.time package makes this pretty much automatic. (Tutorial)
Assuming String input and output:
import java.time.LocalDate;
public class DateIncrementer {
static public String addOneDay(String date) {
return LocalDate.parse(date).plusDays(1).toString();
}
}
I prefer to use DateUtils from Apache. Check this http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-2.6/org/apache/commons/lang/time/DateUtils.html. It is handy especially when you have to use it multiple places in your project and would not want to write your one liner method for this.
The API says:
addDays(Date date, int amount) : Adds a number of days to a date returning a new object.
Note that it returns a new Date object and does not make changes to the previous one itself.
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MM-dd" );
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime( dateFormat.parse( inputString ) );
cal.add( Calendar.DATE, 1 );
Construct a Calendar object and call add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
Java 8 added a new API for working with dates and times.
With Java 8 you can use the following lines of code:
// parse date from yyyy-mm-dd pattern
LocalDate januaryFirst = LocalDate.parse("2014-01-01");
// add one day
LocalDate januarySecond = januaryFirst.plusDays(1);
Take a look at Joda-Time (https://www.joda.org/joda-time/).
DateTimeFormatter parser = ISODateTimeFormat.date();
DateTime date = parser.parseDateTime(dateString);
String nextDay = parser.print(date.plusDays(1));
Please note that this line adds 24 hours:
d1.getTime() + 1 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
but this line adds one day
cal.add( Calendar.DATE, 1 );
On days with a daylight savings time change (25 or 23 hours) you will get different results!
you can use Simple java.util lib
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(yourDate);
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
yourDate = cal.getTime();
Date today = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat formattedDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.add(Calendar.DATE, 1); // number of days to add
String tomorrow = (String)(formattedDate.format(c.getTime()));
System.out.println("Tomorrows date is " + tomorrow);
This will give tomorrow's date. c.add(...) parameters could be changed from 1 to another number for appropriate increment.
If you are using Java 8, then do it like this.
LocalDate sourceDate = LocalDate.of(2017, Month.MAY, 27); // Source Date
LocalDate destDate = sourceDate.plusDays(1); // Adding a day to source date.
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd"); // Setting date format
String destDate = destDate.format(formatter)); // End date
If you want to use SimpleDateFormat, then do it like this.
String sourceDate = "2017-05-27"; // Start date
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(sdf.parse(sourceDate)); // parsed date and setting to calendar
calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1); // number of days to add
String destDate = sdf.format(calendar.getTime()); // End date
Since Java 1.5 TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(1) looks more clean to me.
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MM-dd" );
Date day = dateFormat.parse(string);
// add the day
Date dayAfter = new Date(day.getTime() + TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(1));
long timeadj = 24*60*60*1000;
Date newDate = new Date (oldDate.getTime ()+timeadj);
This takes the number of milliseconds since epoch from oldDate and adds 1 day worth of milliseconds then uses the Date() public constructor to create a date using the new value. This method allows you to add 1 day, or any number of hours/minutes, not only whole days.
In Java 8 simple way to do is:
Date.from(Instant.now().plusSeconds(SECONDS_PER_DAY))
It's very simple, trying to explain in a simple word.
get the today's date as below
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println(calendar.getTime());// print today's date
calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
Now set one day ahead with this date by calendar.add method which takes (constant, value). Here constant could be DATE, hours, min, sec etc. and value is the value of constant. Like for one day, ahead constant is Calendar.DATE and its value are 1 because we want one day ahead value.
System.out.println(calendar.getTime());// print modified date which is tomorrow's date
Thanks
startCalendar.add(Calendar.DATE, 1); //Add 1 Day to the current Calender
In java 8 you can use java.time.LocalDate
LocalDate parsedDate = LocalDate.parse("2015-10-30"); //Parse date from String
LocalDate addedDate = parsedDate.plusDays(1); //Add one to the day field
You can convert in into java.util.Date object as follows.
Date date = Date.from(addedDate.atStartOfDay(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant());
You can formate LocalDate into a String as follows.
String str = addedDate.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd"));
With Java SE 8 or higher you should use the new Date/Time API
int days = 7;
LocalDate dateRedeemed = LocalDate.now();
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MM/YYYY");
String newDate = dateRedeemed.plusDays(days).format(formatter);
System.out.println(newDate);
If you need to convert from java.util.Date to java.time.LocalDate, you may use this method.
public LocalDate asLocalDate(Date date) {
Instant instant = date.toInstant();
ZonedDateTime zdt = instant.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault());
return zdt.toLocalDate();
}
With a version prior to Java SE 8 you may use Joda-Time
Joda-Time provides a quality replacement for the Java date and time
classes and is the de facto standard date and time library for Java
prior to Java SE 8
int days = 7;
DateTime dateRedeemed = DateTime.now();
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd/MM/uuuu");
String newDate = dateRedeemed.plusDays(days).toString(formatter);
System.out.println(newDate);
Apache Commons already has this DateUtils.addDays(Date date, int amount) http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/DateUtils.html#addDays%28java.util.Date,%20int%29 which you use or you could go with the JodaTime to make it more cleaner.
Just pass date in String and number of next days
private String getNextDate(String givenDate,int noOfDays) {
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
String nextDaysDate = null;
try {
cal.setTime(dateFormat.parse(givenDate));
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, noOfDays);
nextDaysDate = dateFormat.format(cal.getTime());
} catch (ParseException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(GR_TravelRepublic.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}finally{
dateFormat = null;
cal = null;
}
return nextDaysDate;
}
If you want to add a single unit of time and you expect that other fields to be incremented as well, you can safely use add method. See example below:
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(1970,Calendar.DECEMBER,31);
System.out.println(simpleDateFormat1.format(cal.getTime()));
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
System.out.println(simpleDateFormat1.format(cal.getTime()));
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -1);
System.out.println(simpleDateFormat1.format(cal.getTime()));
Will Print:
1970-12-31
1971-01-01
1970-12-31
Use the DateFormat API to convert the String into a Date object, then use the Calendar API to add one day. Let me know if you want specific code examples, and I can update my answer.
Try this method:
public static Date addDay(int day) {
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(new Date());
calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, day);
return calendar.getTime();
}
It's simple actually.
One day contains 86400000 milliSeconds.
So first you get the current time in millis from The System by usingSystem.currentTimeMillis() then
add the 84000000 milliSeconds and use the Date Class to generate A date format for the milliseconds.
Example
String Today = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()).toString();
String Today will be 2019-05-9
String Tommorow = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() + 86400000).toString();
String Tommorow will be 2019-05-10
String DayAfterTommorow = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() + (2 * 86400000)).toString();
String DayAfterTommorow will be 2019-05-11
You can use this package from "org.apache.commons.lang3.time":
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date myNewDate = DateUtils.addDays(myDate, 4);
Date yesterday = DateUtils.addDays(myDate, -1);
String formatedDate = sdf.format(myNewDate);
If you are using Java 8, java.time.LocalDate and java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter can make this work quite simple.
public String nextDate(String date){
LocalDate parsedDate = LocalDate.parse(date);
LocalDate addedDate = parsedDate.plusDays(1);
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-mm-dd");
return addedDate.format(formatter);
}
The highest voted answer uses legacy java.util date-time API which was the correct thing to do in 2009 when the question was asked. In March 2014, java.time API supplanted the error-prone legacy date-time API. Since then, it is strongly recommended to use this modern date-time API.
I'm working with a date in this format: yyyy-mm-dd
You have used the wrong letter for the month, irrespective of whether you are using the legacy parsing/formatting API or the modern one. The letter m is used for minute-of-hour and the correct letter for month-of-year is M.
yyyy-MM-dd is the default format of java.time.LocalDate
The java.time API is based on ISO 8601 standards and therefore it does not require specifying a DateTimeFormatter explicitly to parse a date-time string if it is already in ISO 8601 format. Similarly, the toString implementation of a java.time type returns a string in ISO 8601 format. Check LocalDate#parse and LocalDate#toString for more information.
Ways to increment a local date by one day
There are three options:
LocalDate#plusDays(long daysToAdd)
LocalDate#plus(long amountToAdd, TemporalUnit unit): It has got some additional capabilities e.g. you can use it to increment a local date by days, weeks, months, years etc.
LocalDate#plus(TemporalAmount amountToAdd): You can specify a Period (or any other type implementing the TemporalAmount) to add.
Demo:
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.Period;
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Parsing
LocalDate ldt = LocalDate.parse("2020-10-20");
System.out.println(ldt);
// Incrementing by one day
LocalDate oneDayLater = ldt.plusDays(1);
System.out.println(oneDayLater);
// Alternatively
oneDayLater = ldt.plus(1, ChronoUnit.DAYS);
System.out.println(oneDayLater);
oneDayLater = ldt.plus(Period.ofDays(1));
System.out.println(oneDayLater);
String desiredString = oneDayLater.toString();
System.out.println(desiredString);
}
}
Output:
2020-10-20
2020-10-21
2020-10-21
2020-10-21
2020-10-21
How to switch from the legacy to the modern date-time API?
You can switch from the legacy to the modern date-time API using Date#toInstant on a java-util-date instance. Once you have an Instant, you can easily obtain other date-time types of java.time API. An Instant represents a moment in time and is independent of a time-zone i.e. it represents a date-time in UTC (often displayed as Z which stands for Zulu-time and has a ZoneOffset of +00:00).
Demo:
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.util.Date;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Date date = new Date();
Instant instant = date.toInstant();
System.out.println(instant);
ZonedDateTime zdt = instant.atZone(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"));
System.out.println(zdt);
OffsetDateTime odt = instant.atOffset(ZoneOffset.of("+05:30"));
System.out.println(odt);
// Alternatively, using time-zone
odt = instant.atZone(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata")).toOffsetDateTime();
System.out.println(odt);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(instant, ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"));
System.out.println(ldt);
// Alternatively,
ldt = instant.atZone(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata")).toLocalDateTime();
System.out.println(ldt);
}
}
Output:
2022-11-12T12:52:18.016Z
2022-11-12T18:22:18.016+05:30[Asia/Kolkata]
2022-11-12T18:22:18.016+05:30
2022-11-12T18:22:18.016+05:30
2022-11-12T18:22:18.016
2022-11-12T18:22:18.016
Learn more about the modern Date-Time API from Trail: Date Time.
Let's clarify the use case: You want to do calendar arithmetic and start/end with a java.util.Date.
Some approaches:
Convert to string and back with SimpleDateFormat: This is an inefficient solution.
Convert to LocalDate: You would lose any time-of-day information.
Convert to LocalDateTime: This involves more steps and you need to worry about timezone.
Convert to epoch with Date.getTime(): This is efficient but you are calculating with milliseconds.
Consider using java.time.Instant:
Date _now = new Date();
Instant _instant = _now.toInstant().minus(5, ChronoUnit.DAYS);
Date _newDate = Date.from(_instant);
You can do this just in one line.
e.g to add 5 days
Date newDate = Date.from(Date().toInstant().plus(5, ChronoUnit.DAYS));
to subtract 5 days
Date newDate = Date.from(Date().toInstant().minus(5, ChronoUnit.DAYS));
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How to convert date from MM/YYYY to MM/DD/YYYY in Java
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DateTimeFormatter dateFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/yyyy");
LocalDate parsedDate = LocalDate.parse(entryOne.getKey(), dateFormat)
Getting exception
Text '03/2018' could not be parsed: Unable to obtain LocalDate from TemporalAccessor:
How to parse this string and convert to Date using Java 8 having default first day of the month. Something what we do using.
TemporalAdjusters.firstDayOfMonth()
You have two choices for converting a MM/yyyy string into a LocalDate:
Parse as YearMonth then convert to LocalDate:
String date = "04/2018";
DateTimeFormatter dateFormat = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/yyyy");
YearMonth yearMonth = YearMonth.parse(date, dateFormat);
LocalDate parsedDate = yearMonth.atDay(1);
System.out.println(parsedDate); // prints: 2018-04-01
Use a DateTimeFormatter with a default day-of-month defined:
String date = "04/2018";
DateTimeFormatter dateFormat = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
.appendPattern("MM/yyyy")
.parseDefaulting(ChronoField.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1)
.toFormatter();
LocalDate parsedDate = LocalDate.parse(date, dateFormat);
System.out.println(parsedDate); // prints: 2018-04-01
Here's what works for me:
String dateAsString = "03/2018";
DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("MM/yyyy");
DateTime dt = fmt.parseDateTime(dateAsString);
LocalDateTime ldt = new LocalDateTime(dt);
int dayOfWeek = ldt.getDayOfWeek(); //has value of 4 since Thursday was the first day of March
I have a below program to compare two dates.
I get timestamps that are date1 and currentTimestamp, here i need to compare only dates not the time values.But below program always returns -1.(value)
timestamp date1 = "2017-01-20 14:51:30.091" // i get this from service call in this format
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(DEFAULT_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT);
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(calendar.getTime());
java.util.Date currentDate = dateFormat.parse(formattedDate);
java.sql.Timestamp currentTimestamp = new java.sql.Timestamp(currentDate.getTime());
int value = DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance().compare(date1 , currentTimestamp );
How to compare only dates regardless of time. Please help me on this.
UPDATED:
i changed to below code
timestamp date1 = "2017-01-20 14:51:30.091" // i get this from service call in this format
LocalDate localDate = new LocalDate();
int value = DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance().compare(date1 , localDate );
this gives me error saying "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No instant converter found for type: org.joda.time.LocalDate"
This is NOT Joda solution...
Use: Apache library 'commons-lang3-x.x.jar' (DateUtils)
#Test
public void testCompare() {
Date current = new Date();
Date previous = DateUtils.addHours(DateUtils.addDays(new Date(), -1),5);
assertEquals(1,DateUtils.truncatedCompareTo(current,previous,Calendar.DATE));
assertEquals(0,DateUtils.truncatedCompareTo(current,current,Calendar.DATE));
assertEquals(-1,DateUtils.truncatedCompareTo(previous,current,Calendar.DATE));
}
You can Try this code with JodaTime :
DateTime date1 = DateTime.parse("2017-01-20 14:51:30.091", DateTimeFormat.forPattern("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS"));
DateTime now = new DateTime();
int value = DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance().compare(date1 , now);
To compare DateTime in joda without time you have 2 options:
convert DateTime to LocalDate .
Use DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance
For example:
#Test
public void compareJodaTime() {
DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
String today = "2017-01-20 14:51:30.091";
String tomorrow = "2017-01-21 14:51:30.091";
DateTime now = DateTime.now();
Assert.assertThat(now.toLocalDate().compareTo(DateTime.parse(today, dateTimeFormatter).toLocalDate()), Matchers.is(0));
Assert.assertThat(now.toLocalDate().compareTo(DateTime.parse(tomorrow, dateTimeFormatter).toLocalDate()), Matchers.is(-1));
Assert.assertThat(now.toLocalDate().isEqual(DateTime.parse(today, dateTimeFormatter).toLocalDate()), Matchers.is(true));
Assert.assertThat(now.toLocalDate().isBefore(DateTime.parse(tomorrow, dateTimeFormatter).toLocalDate()), Matchers.is(true));
Assert.assertThat(DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance().compare(now, DateTime.parse(today, dateTimeFormatter)), Matchers.is(0));
Assert.assertThat(DateTimeComparator.getDateOnlyInstance().compare(now, DateTime.parse(tomorrow, dateTimeFormatter)), Matchers.is(-1));
}
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UnsupportedTemporalTypeException when formatting Instant to String
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Closed 7 years ago.
I can convert a java.util.Date to a java.time.Instant (Java 8 and later) this way:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 8);
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 30);
Date startTime = cal.getTime();
Instant i = startTime.toInstant();
Can anybody let me know about the convert that instant to date with a specific date & time format? i.e 2015-06-02 8:30:00
I have gone through api but could not find a satisfactory answer.
If you want to convert an Instant to a Date:
Date myDate = Date.from(instant);
And then you can use SimpleDateFormat for the formatting part of your question:
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MM yyyy HH:mm:ss");
String formattedDate = formatter.format(myDate);
An Instant is what it says: a specific instant in time - it does not have the notion of date and time (the time in New York and Tokyo is not the same at a given instant).
To print it as a date/time, you first need to decide which timezone to use. For example:
System.out.println(LocalDateTime.ofInstant(i, ZoneOffset.UTC));
This will print the date/time in iso format: 2015-06-02T10:15:02.325
If you want a different format you can use a formatter:
LocalDateTime datetime = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(i, ZoneOffset.UTC);
String formatted = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss").format(datetime);
System.out.println(formatted);
try Parsing and Formatting
Take an example
Parsing
String input = ...;
try {
DateTimeFormatter formatter =
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMM d yyyy");
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(input, formatter);
System.out.printf("%s%n", date);
}
catch (DateTimeParseException exc) {
System.out.printf("%s is not parsable!%n", input);
throw exc; // Rethrow the exception.
}
Formatting
ZoneId leavingZone = ...;
ZonedDateTime departure = ...;
try {
DateTimeFormatter format = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMM d yyyy hh:mm a");
String out = departure.format(format);
System.out.printf("LEAVING: %s (%s)%n", out, leavingZone);
}
catch (DateTimeException exc) {
System.out.printf("%s can't be formatted!%n", departure);
throw exc;
}
The output for this example, which prints both the arrival and departure time, is as follows:
LEAVING: Jul 20 2013 07:30 PM (America/Los_Angeles)
ARRIVING: Jul 21 2013 10:20 PM (Asia/Tokyo)
For more details check this page-
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/datetime/iso/format.html