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

Let's clarify the use case: You want to do calendar arithmetic and start/end with a java.util.Date.

Some approaches:

1. Convert to string and back with SimpleDateFormat: This is an inefficient solution.
2. Convert to LocalDate: You would lose any time-of-day information.
3. Convert to LocalDateTime: This involves more steps and you need to worry about timezone.
4. Convert to epoch with Date.getTime(): This is efficient but you are calculating with milliseconds.

Consider using java.time.Instant:

Date _now = new Date();
Instant _instant = _now.toInstant().minus(5, ChronoUnit.DAYS);
Date _newDate = Date.from(_instant);