<p>Anyone know a simple way using Java calendar to subtract X days from a date?</p>

<p>I have not been able to find any function which allows me to directly subtract X days from a date in Java. Can someone point me to the right direction?</p>

Taken from
the docs here
:
Adds or subtracts the specified amount of time to the given calendar field, based on the calendar's rules. For example, to subtract 5 days from the current time of the calendar, you can achieve it by calling:
```
```
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(); // this would default to now
calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, -5).
```
```