How to get 5 years before now

Question

I am new to java 8 and I am trying to get five years before now, here is my code:

Instant fiveYearsBefore = Instant.now().plus(-5,                     ChronoUnit.YEARS); 

But I get the following error:

java.time.temporal.UnsupportedTemporalTypeException: Unsupported unit: Years 

Can anyone help me how to do that?

Answer 1

ZonedDateTime.now().minusYears(5).toInstant() 

That will use your default time zone to compute the time. If you want another one, specify it in now(). For example:

ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC).minusYears(5).toInstant()