calendar dates

[lusha tak]

Hello all!!
how is everybody doing??
hey, i have a query regarding calendar dates.
is there any way to gat caendar dates for the previous week/previous month using java.util package(i.e. if today it is 19/02/2002,how do we get exactly a week's prior date 12/02/2002 )?
thanks in advance
lusha

[Arun Boraiah]

Hi,
import java.sql.Timestamp class
below line of code will take current time in millisecond and sub one week time in millisecond. this will give a time sttamp object which now will be one week old date. Which you can use
Timestamp ts=new Timestamp( System.currentTimeMillis() - (24*60*60*7*1000));
System.out.println(ts);
try for month (need to take care of varing no of days of month)
-arun
[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: Arun Boraiah ]

[Mike Curwen]

Moving this from Servlets -> Java In General (Beginners)

[Senthil B Kumar]

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Calendar;
public class Prev
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
Calendar xx = Calendar.getInstance();
Date dt = null;
xx.add(Calendar.DATE,-1);
dt = xx.getTime();
System.out.println("Yesterday Is : " + dt.getDate());
}


here replace -1 with -7 to get prev weeks calendar dates...