Calendar Class in Java Example

In this Example, Calendar class is an abstract class present in java.util package. getInstance method is a static method of Calendar class. This method is used to create the object of Calendar class. Return type of this method is Calendar class object. Syntax-public static Calendar getInstance (). get method is a predefined method of Calendar class. It is used to return the value of a given calendar field. Return type of this method is int type. Syntax-public int get (int)

MONTH, YEAR, DATE are predefined constants of Calendar class. Syntax-public static final int MONTH, public static final int YEAR, public static final int DATE add method is a predefined abstract method of Calendar class. It adds or substracts the specified amount of time to the given calendar field. Here we subtract 10 days from the current date. Syntax-public abstract void add (int field, int amount)

Here is the Java Example for Calendar Class

import java.util.Calendar; 
 public class ShowDateCalendar 
 { 
             public static void main(String[] args) 
       { 
            Calendar now=Calendar.getInstance(); 
            System.out.println("Current Date: " +(now.get (Calendar.MONTH)) + "-" + now.get(Calendar.DATE) + "-"+ now.get (Calendar.YEAR)); 
            now.add(Calendar.DATE,1); 
            System.out.println ("Date After One Day: "+ (now.get (Calendar.MONTH)) +"-"+ (now.get (Calendar.DATE) +1) +"-"+ now.get (Calendar.YEAR)); 
            now=Calendar.getInstance(); 
            now.add(Calendar.DATE,-10); 
            System.out.println ("Date Before 10 Days : " +"-" +(now.get(Calendar.MONTH)) +"-" + (now.get(Calendar.DATE)) + "-" + now.get(Calendar.YEAR)); 
       } 
 }