How do I add days to a date in Clojure
parse
returns a java.util.Date
, the error you are seeing is telling you that you can't cast a Date
to a Number
. You can use getTime
to get the milliseconds of a Date
:
(java.util.Date. (+ (* 7 86400 1000)
(.getTime (.parse (java.text.SimpleDateFormat. "yyyy-MM-dd") date))))
This potentially adds 7 days to the date. If you want to potentially add 90 days you need to replace the 7 with 90, like this: (* 90 86400 1000)
.
You can also use java.util.Calendar
:
(let [cal (Calendar/getInstance)
d (.parse (java.text.SimpleDateFormat. "yyyy-MM-dd") date)]
(doto cal
(.setTime d)
(.add Calendar/DATE 90)
(.getTime)))
Or better yet, clj-time:
(require '[clj-time.core :as t])
(require '[clj-time.format :as f])
(t/plus (f/parse (f/formatters :year-month-day) date)
(t/days 90))
I wouldn’t recommend using the legacy date and time API in new code if you can avoid it.
Java 8 brought a new API for dates with which you can express this problem elegantly:
(let [date-format java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter/ISO_LOCAL_DATE]
(.. (java.time.LocalDate/parse "2015-02-13" date-format)
(plusDays 90)
(format date-format)))
Or even, taking all shortcuts:
(-> (java.time.LocalDate/parse "2015-02-13") (.plusDays 90) str)
clj-time has from-now
and ago
:
(require '[clj-time.core :refer [days from-now]])
(-> 90 days from-now)
=> #object[org.joda.time.DateTime 0x4d8bcee3 "2017-01-11T16:03:40.067Z"]
(require '[clj-time.core :refer [hours ago]])
(-> 7 hours ago)
=> #object[org.joda.time.DateTime 0x3eef2142 "2016-10-13T09:19:01.246Z"]
Available PeriodType
definitions: years
, months
, weeks
, days
, hours
, minutes
, seconds
.
The resulting Joda DateTime
objects can easily be manipulated, for instance to a unix epoch in milliseconds:
(require '[clj-time.core :refer [days from-now]])
(require '[clj-time.coerce :as coerce])
(coerce/to-long (-> 90 days from-now))
=> 1484150620067