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all in a days work

Posted by Jody Brown on December 03, 2001 at 2:36 PM

Try this...

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
class Dates {
	public static void main(String args[]) {
		SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MM, dd, yyyy");
		
		Date myDate = new Date();
		System.out.println("Date currently is " + format.format(myDate));
		long dateMillis = myDate.getTime();
		// subtract a day
		long dayInMillis = 1000 * 60 * 60 *24;
		dateMillis = dateMillis - dayInMillis;
		
		// set myDate to new time
		myDate.setTime(dateMillis);
		System.out.println("Date yesterday was " + format.format(myDate));
	}
}