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Asked: 2026-05-26T14:23:07+00:00

I’m having an hard time trying to parse date in the future, and I

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I’m having an hard time trying to parse date in the future, and I would apreciate some help!

Here’s the thing, I’d like to add a parsed date to the current date (to have it in the future). The problem is that I can have many kind of date format, like :

  • dd
  • MM-dd
  • yyyy-MM-dd

So if the user set something like 5, the returned date will be (in our timelapse) 2011-11-05.
If he set 02-14, it will be 2012-02-14.

But suppose we are the 4th of november, and the user set 11-03, it will be 2012-11-03 and not 2011-11-03 since it’s past.

I tried to play with Calendar, Date, SimpleFormat, but I cannot make it work.

My parsers (using SimpleDateFormat) are working though.

Could you help me archieve this? I’m not asking for a complete code, just something that would set me on the right track!

thanks! 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have had very good experience with jodatime – http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/. Checkout the Dateformatters in that.

    It has a very extensive API and lets you do things like add and subtract dates – taking into account timezones and daylight saving etc.

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