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Posted by Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

adding a week upon calling Date() method

hi,

    String checkout = String.format("Book successfully checked out on %s", new Date());
    System.out.println(checkout);

this will print out the date and time of when the code is called. What i want to do is have another line that says Book is due on %s, new Date() + a week

and also to store that new date so i can check if the book was returned on time or not

however i got no idea how to do this.. on second thought, is this even possible? otherwise is there any alternative way?

thanks

1 Answer

Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

i figured out how to do it and its pretty cool :)

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/

its under the java.time.LocalDateTime package

if anyone wants to see how i did it:

LocalDateTime time = LocalDateTime.now();
        String checkout = String.format("Book successfully checked out is due a week later on %s", time.plusWeeks(1) );
        System.out.println(checkout);