Date functionality URGENT!!

[Chhaya Dhanani]

hi all,
i am having a slight problem manipulating dates
The code requires a inpout odf date in string format (yyyymmdd) eg 20021218
what i need is a function which will calculate one day less from the given day i.e 20021217
if it is 20030101 .. it should give me 20021231
also take care of feb and leap year..
i need this asap ..
deadlines to meet consider this as an SOS
Thanx in advance
Chhaya

[David O'Meara]

Check out java.text.SimpleDateFormat for a way to output dates in a particular format.... simply.
Using java.util.Calendar you can add -1 to the day field to get the previous day.
Dave

[girish rateshwar]

Hi,
Well as david suggested, using the calendar class in the util package.
-----
calendar c1= new calendar();
Date d1= new Date();
And passing a parameter to the setTime() method--object of the date class.
while using the get() function:
c1.get((Calendar.Date)-1)<<----
Regards,
[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: girish rateshwar ]

[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());
}
}

[Blake Minghelli]

Originally posted by girish rateshwar:
Hi,
Well as david suggested, using the calendar class in the util package.
-----
calendar c1= new calendar();
Date d1= new Date();

And passing a parameter to the setTime() method--object of the date class.

while using the get() function:
c1.get((Calendar.Date)-1)<<----

Regards,

[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: girish rateshwar ]

I think you have the get() and add() methods mixed up. The get() method simply returns one of the fields of a Calendar object, it does not alter the date like the add() method does.