How can I increment a date by one day in Java?

Question

I\'m working with a date in this format: yyyy-mm-dd.

How can I increment this date by one day?

Answer 1

I prefer to use DateUtils from Apache. Check this http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-2.6/org/apache/commons/lang/time/DateUtils.html. It is handy especially when you have to use it multiple places in your project and would not want to write your one liner method for this.

The API says:

addDays(Date date, int amount) : Adds a number of days to a date returning a new object.

Note that it returns a new Date object and does not make changes to the previous one itself.