Question

I’m trying to add some minutes to a date using plusMinutes, but it just doesn’t add anything at all:

Here’s the code:

    String currentDate ;
    SimpleDateFormat myFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm");
    Date date1= null;
    DateTime dt;

    currentDate ="27/12/2010 11:29" ;

    try {
           date1= myFormat.parse(currentDate);

        } catch (ParseException ex) {

        ex.printStackTrace();

    }
    dt = new DateTime(date1);
    dt.plusMinutes(30);

Answer 1

Javadoc says

Returns a copy of this datetime plus the specified number of millis.

so

do something like

dt = new DateTime(date1);
dt = dt.plusMinutes(30);
System.out.println(""+dt);