store current date and date 1 year from current in java

Question

I have everything setup already to store the current date to a variable in Java. What I am trying to figure out is how to store a date of 1 year after the current date.

import java.util.Date; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.util.Scanner; import java.util.Calendar; 

Here is what I have for the current date:

DateFormat newDate = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"); Date date = new Date(); startDate = newDate.format(date); 

So if it were today for example it would store 2/18/2013. I am trying to store the date 2/18/2014. How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

If you do not want to drag external libraries, just use calendar.add(Calendar.YEAR, 1)

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); Date today = cal.getTime(); cal.add(Calendar.YEAR, 1); // to get previous year add -1 Date nextYear = cal.getTime(); 

Note, if the date was 29/Feb/2012 and you added 1 year, you will get 28/Feb/2013