[LANG-194] [lang] add generic add method to DateUtils

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2

Environment

Operating System: Windows XP
Platform: PC

• Bugzilla Id: 33102
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Bowers
• Created: 15/Jan/05 02:23
• Updated: 20/May/06 01:00
• Resolved: 20/May/06 01:00

Description

There is no way to do Date arithmetic in one line in Java, unless you use
deprecated methods. The following method initializes a Calendar object with a
date and performs date arithmetic on it, and returns the result as a java.util.Date.

public static Date add(Date date, int field, int amount)

{ Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar(); c.setTime(date); c.add(field, amount); return c.getTime(); }