How do I do calendar arithmetic with java.util.Date?

Question

Currently I have a Date object representing a time. How would I add 5 minutes to this object?

Answer 1

You could use Calendar, which will make it easy to add any length of time:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.setTime(date); cal.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 5); Date newDate = cal.getTime(); 

For your case you could just add the time in milliseconds like this:

Date newDate = new Date(date.getTime() + 5 * 60 * 1000L);