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Java program to subtract days from the current date

Java example to demonstrate how to subtract days from 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 subtract days from the current date using add() method, and printed the result.

Source Code

The source code to subtract days from the current date is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Java program to subtract days from 
// the current date

import java.util.*;

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

    cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -12);
    System.out.println("Date before 12 days: " + cal.getTime());
  }
}

Output

Date before 12 days: Mon Mar 21 05:37:24 GMT 2022

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 subtracted the 12 days from the current date using add() method, and printed the result.

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