DateTime.addMonth()

Signature

DateTime addMonth (DateTime date, int months)

Domain

action, condition

Description

Adds a number of months to a DateTime and returns the result. The input DateTime is not modified.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`date`	`DateTime`	A DateTime to add some amount of time to.
`months`	`int`	The number of months to add to the DateTime.

Returns

Type	Description
`DateTime`	A new DateTime that results from adding the number of time units to the `date` argument.

Cautions

none

Example

Date dateNow = Date.now ();
String start = DateTime.format (dateNow, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String result = DateTime.format (DateTime.addMonth(dateNow, 1), "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

Result is:
start contains: "2004-03-11 14:59:04"
result contains: "2004-04-11 14:59:04"