How to subtract X day from a Date object in Java?

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Java 8 and later

With Java 8’s date time API change, Use LocalDate

LocalDate date = LocalDate.now().minusDays(300);

Similarly you can have

LocalDate date = someLocalDateInstance.minusDays(300);

Refer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/23885950/260990 for translation between java.util.Date <–> java.time.LocalDateTime

Date in = new Date();
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(in.toInstant(), ZoneId.systemDefault());
Date out = Date.from(ldt.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant());

Java 7 and earlier

Use Calendar‘s add() method

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(dateInstance);
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -30);
Date dateBefore30Days = cal.getTime();

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