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Java program to add years to the current date

Java example to demonstrate how to add years to the current date?
Submitted by Nidhi, on April 02, 2022

Problem statement

In this program, we will create an instance of the Calendar class and add years into the current date using add() method, and printed the result.

Java program to add years to the current date

The source code to add years to the current date is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Java program to add years to the 
// current date

import java.util.*;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

    cal.add(Calendar.YEAR, 5);
    System.out.println("Date after 5 years: " + cal.getTime());
  }
}

Output

Date after 5 years: Fri Apr 02 05:59:18 GMT 2027

Explanation

In the above program, we created a class Main that contains a static method main(). The main() method is the entry point for the program, here we created the object of the Calendar class and added the 5 years to the current date using add() method, and printed the result.

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