Get Previous Day in Java

In this source code example, we show you how to get the previous day using Java 8 LocalDate class.

Get Previous Day in Java Example

package com.ramesh.java8.datetime;

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

/**
 * Useful Java8DateUtiliy Methods
 * @author javaguides.net
 *
 */

public final class Java8DateUtility {

    /**
     * Get Previous Day.
     * @param localDate
     * @return
    */
    public static LocalDate getPreviousDay(LocalDate localDate) {
        return localDate.minus(1, ChronoUnit.DAYS);
    } 
}

JUnit test case

package com.ramesh.java8.datetime;

import java.time.LocalDate;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * JUnit test cases for Java8DateUtiliy Methods
 * @author javaguides.net
 *
 */
public class Java8DateUtilityTest {

    @Test
    public void getPreviousDayTest() {
        System.out.println("Get Previous Day :: " + Java8DateUtility.getPreviousDay(LocalDate.now()));
    }
}

Run the JUnit test cases will print the output:

Get Previous Day :: 2018-07-20

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