How to reduce one month from current date and stored in date variable using java?

Question

How to reduce one month from current date and want to sore in java.util.Date variable im using this code but it's shows error in 2nd line

 java.util.Date da = new Date();  da.add(Calendar.MONTH, -1); //error 

How to store this date in java.util.Date variable?

Answer 1

Use Calendar:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.add(Calendar.MONTH, -1); Date result = cal.getTime();