Java program to add or substract dates

Java program to add or substract dates

Below is the java program for date addition. In example below, you are adding 3 days to date 20140101. You can change the format of the date by changing the format mentioned in the code in red below. 

-----dateadd.java code------------

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
public class dateadd {
public static void main (String[] args) {
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyymmdd");
Date dt=new Date();
try
            {
 dt = formatter.parse(args[0]);
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.setTime(dt);
c.add(Calendar.DATE,Integer.parseInt(args[1]) );
dt = c.getTime();
System.out.println(formatter.format(dt));
            } catch (ParseException e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
}
}


Also check out the commonly used date functions in netezza:
http://dwbitechguru.blogspot.ca/2014/09/commonly-used-netezza-date-functions.html