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 new java.time package in Java8 and Java9

import java.time.LocalDate;

LocalDate mydate = LocalDate.now(); // Or whatever you want
mydate = mydate.minusMonths(1);

The advantage to using this method is that you avoid all the issues about varying month lengths and have more flexibility in adjusting dates and ranges. The Local part also is Timezone smart so it's easy to convert between them.

As an aside, using java.time you can also get the day of the week, day of the month, all days up to the last of the month, all days up to a certain day of the week, etc.

mydate.plusMonths(1);
mydate.with(TemporalAdjusters.next(DayOfWeek.SUNDAY)).getDayOfMonth();
mydate.with(TemporalAdjusters.lastDayOfMonth());