How to reduce one month from current date and stored in date variable using java?

Question

How to reduce one month from current date and want to sore in java.util.Date variable im using this code but it\'s shows error in 2nd line

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Answer 1

Using JodaTime :

Date date = new DateTime().minusMonths(1).toDate();

JodaTime provides a convenient API for date manipulation.

Note that similar Date API will be introduced in JDK8 with the JSR310.