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You need to use the java.util.GregorianCalendar class

Posted by Don on November 22, 2000 at 7:20 PM

> My problem is the following:
> I need to give a time-to-live to a string on a DB, so what I do is simply to add a period (expressed in days) to the current Date.

Within GregorianCalendar is a method called add(int field, int amount). See the Calendar class for all the different static fields. So an example that adds 2 days to the current time:
GregorianCalendar current = new GregorianCalendar();
System.out.println(current.getTime().toString());
current.add(Calendar.DATE,2);
System.out.println(current.getTime().toString());