Adding/Subtracting 5 seconds from Java Date - Showing deprected warning

Question

I want to add 5 seconds to current time

    Date date = new Date();

    date.setSeconds(date.getSeconds()+ 5);
    System.out.println(\"old Value is: \"+date);         


        

Answer 1

Java 8 has completly different time-api and makes handling dates a lot easier. Here's an article

With Java Versions 5-7 (everything below should not be used IMHO) you should use Calendar (as Petr suggested) If you are allowed to use third-party APIs, you should definitly take a look at JodaTime