getting date and adding to it

[lespaul]

Disclaimer: First Java program!!

I have a class that I need to find out what today's date is and add a certain number of days to that. I then need to format that date as YYYYMMDD in order to include it in my query...

1. How do I find out what today's date is?
2. How do I format that date as a string in YYYYMMDD?

Thanks!



Leslie

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[lespaul]

well, using my google powers, I found the answer to getting the date, now I just need to figure out how to add 10 days to it before formatting....

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
    	
    	
    	SearchDate = format.format(new java.util.Date());

Leslie

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[Bong]

You would probably do best creating a calendar object. Then you can add 1 to the day field.

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[lespaul]

here's the answer I came up with (with help from co-workers!):

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.add(cal.DAY_OF_MONTH, leadTime);
    	
java.util.Date DateValue = cal.getTime();
    	
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
        
SearchDate = format.format(DateValue);