How to do something like 5 minutes before now in GWT

[peter tong]

As GWT has no Calendar Class as in java, I search and found there is a CalendarUtil in GWT, but it has only

addDaysToDate(java.util.Date date, int days) 

and

addMonthsToDate(java.util.Date date, int months) 

but no any method for handling adding or subtracting hours, minutes, seconds, so how to do something like
5 minutes before current times, 1hour before current times...etc?

[Gihan Pandigamage]

 Timer t = new Timer() {  
      public void run() {  
        Window.alert("hello world I'm back..........");  
      }  
    };  
  
    // Schedule the timer to run once in 5 seconds.  
    t.schedule(5000);  

may be you can use this..

[Maneesh Godbole]

No!
The Timer or the schedule method cannot be used to manipulate the date/time

[Daniel Renner]

Maybe its easier to get the necessary Time/Date with a RPC? So you can use any java function on the server. Or is this not possible/wanted in this case?

Greetings

[avi sinha]

Hi Peter, why don't you just use the methods of Date class. I think using setTime & getTime, you can achieve the needful.

Thanks