addToDate

addToDate( date, timeUnit, amount )

addToDate( date, timeUnit, amount )

Description

Returns the date, which will be after the given amount of given time units from the given date e.g. addToDate(date(), DAY, 1 ) returns the “tomorrow” date: (current date + 1 day ).

This method correctly handles leap years, daylight saving time tweaks, e.g. its ( DAY, 1 ) may actually add to the date 23 or 25 hours during DST switch, in order to get the correct result

Parameters

Name	Type of value	Description
date	java.util.Date	The original date.
timeUnit	Valid values: MILLISECOND SECOND MINUTE HOUR DAY WEEK MONTH YEAR	Defines the time units.
amount	double	The number of time units (may be negative — in this case the returned date will be in the past relative to the given date).

Result

Type	Description
java.util.Date	The new date obtained by adding the given amount of specified time units to the original date.

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