dates

[David Jon]

any one know how I can find out the date 7 days agoe? when the only object I have currently available is Date. essentially I want to do something like :

new Date() - 7days.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
DJ.

[Art Metzer]

Hi, David, let us know if this fills the bill?

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import java.util.*;

public class AWeekAgo {

    public static void main( String[] args ) {
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        Date today = new Date();
        cal.setTime( today );
        cal.add( Calendar.DATE, -7 );
        Date weekAgo = cal.getTime();
        System.out.println( "Now: " + today );
        System.out.println( "One week ago: " + weekAgo );
    }
}

This code returned

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Now: Fri Apr 20 11:07:59 CDT 2001
One week ago: Fri Apr 13 11:07:59 CDT 2001

Art

[David Jon]

YOU ARE THE MAN