java.time.LocalDate.minus() Method Example

Description

The java.time.LocalDate.minus(long amountToSubtract, TemporalUnit unit) method returns a copy of this date with the specified amount subtracted.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.time.LocalDate.minus(long amountToSubtract, TemporalUnit unit) method.

public LocalDate minus(long amountToSubtract, TemporalUnit unit)

Parameters

• amountToSubtract − the amount of the unit to subtract from the result, may be negative.

• unit − the unit of the amount to subtract, not null.

Return Value

a LocalDate based on this date with the specified amount subtracted, not null.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.time.LocalDate.minus(long amountToSubtract, TemporalUnit unit) method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;

public class LocalDateDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
	  
      LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse("2017-02-03");
      System.out.println(date.minus(2,ChronoUnit.DAYS));  
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

2017-02-01