What is DateUtils.setMinutes() in Java?

How to import `DateUtils`

The definition of DateUtils can be found in the Apache Commons Lang package, which we can add to the Maven project by adding the following dependency to the pom.xml file:

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
            <version>3.12.0</version>
</dependency>

For other versions of the commons-lang package, refer to the Maven Repository.

You can import the DateUtils class as follows:

import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateUtils;

Syntax

public static Date setMinutes(Date date, int amount)

Parameters

Date date: The original Date object.
int amount: The new value of minutes to set.

Return value

This method returns a new Date object with the minutes’ field set to the specified value.

import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateUtils;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class Main{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Date date = new Date();
        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss:SS");
        int newMinuteValue = 5;
        Date newDate = DateUtils.setMinutes(date, newMinuteValue);
        System.out.printf("DateUtils.setMinutes(%s, %s) = %s", dateFormat.format(date), newMinuteValue, dateFormat.format(newDate));
    }
}

Explanation

From line 1 to line 5, we import the relevant packages.
In line 7, we create a Main class.
In line 9, we make a main() function.
In line 10, we create a Date object.
In line 11, we create a SimpleDateFormat object with the format in which we want the dates to be printed.
In line 12, we define the new value of the minute field to set.
In line 13, we use the setMinutes() method to set the minutes field of the date object defined in line 10.
In line 14, we print the original date, new minute value, and the new date object we obtained in line 13.