If I have a specific date of a day, how do I get the date of that day in the previous week?

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For example, if I have a \"Date\" variable \"date1\" with a value of (dd/mm/yyy) 03/07/2011, which is a S

Answer 1

If you are willing to use Joda time it will be very easy.

An example:

DateTime toDay=new DateTime();
DateTime dateOfPreviousWeek=toDay.minusDays(7);

Another:

DateTime toDay = new DateTime(2011, 7, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
DateTime dateOfPreviousWeek = toDay.minusDays(7);

You can get java.util.Date from DateTime as:

Date javaDate=jodaDateTime.toDate();