Java LocalDate minusDays() Method

Java minusDays() method is used to minus the specified number of days from a date. It subtracts the days and returns a new LocalDate. For example, 2009-01-10 minus one day would result in 2009-01-09.

It takes a long type argument that represents the number of days and returns a new LocalDate. The syntax of the method is given below.

It takes a parameter of long type.

It returns a localdate after subtracting the days.

Let's take an example to subtract days from a date. Here, we are subtracting 2 days from a date by using the minusDays() method and we get a new date as a result.

import java.time.LocalDate; 
public class DateDemo {
    
    public static void main(String[] args){  
        
        LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.of(2016, 10, 21);
        System.out.println(localDate);
        localDate = localDate.minusDays(2);
        System.out.println("New date : "+localDate);
    }
}

Output:

2016-10-21 

New date : 2016-10-19

Let's take another example to subtract the specified days from a date. Here, we are subtracting 2 days from current date. we used now() method to get current date and minusDays() method to get new date after subtracting the date.

import java.time.LocalDate; 
public class DateDemo {
    
    public static void main(String[] args){  
        
        LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now();
        System.out.println(localDate);
        localDate = localDate.minusDays(2);
        System.out.println("New date : "+localDate);
    }
}

Output:

2020-06-10 

New date : 2020-06-08

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import java.time.LocalDate; 
public class Main {
    
    public static void main(String[] args){  
        
        LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.of(2011,10,23);
        localDate = localDate.minusDays(2);
        System.out.println(localDate);
    }
}