Java Duration Class | plusMinutes() Method with Example

Duration Class plusMinutes() method: Here, we are going to learn about the plusMinutes() method of Duration Class with its syntax and example.
Submitted by Preeti Jain, on May 16, 2020

Duration Class plusMinutes() method

  • plusMinutes() method is available in java.time package.
  • plusMinutes() method is used to add the given duration in minutes to this Duration and return the Duration.
  • plusMinutes() method is a non-static method, it is accessible with the class object only and if we try to access the method with the class name then we will get an error.
  • plusMinutes() method may throw an exception at the time of performing addition.
    ArithmeticException: This exception may throw when the calculated results exceed the length of this Duration.

Syntax:

    public Duration plusMinutes(long min_val);

Parameter(s):

  • long min_val – represents the minutes value to add to this Duration.

Return value:

The return type of this method is Duration, it returns the Duration that holds the value added the given minutes to this Duration.

Example:

// Java program to demonstrate the example 
// of plusMinutes(long min_val) method  of Duration

import java.time.*;

public class PlusMinutesOfDuration {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        long minutes = 10;
        
        // Instantiates two Duration objects
        Duration du1 = Duration.ofMinutes(40);
        Duration du2 = Duration.parse("P2DT2H20M");

        // Display du1, du2 
        System.out.println("du1: " + du1);
        System.out.println("du2: " + du2);
        System.out.println("minutes to add:" + minutes);

        System.out.println();

        // adds the given duration in minutes with 
        // this Duration du1 and returns the Duration 
        // i.e. here we  are adding the given 10 minutes
        // with this du1 that holds the value of 40 
        // minutes i.e. 40M + 10M = 50M
        Duration plus_val = du1.plusMinutes(minutes);

        // Display plus_val
        System.out.println("du1.plusMinutes(minutes): " + plus_val);

        // adds the given duration in minutes with 
        // this Duration du2 and returns the Duration 
        // i.e. here we are adding the given 10 minutes
        // with this du2 that holds the value of 20 
        // minutes i.e. 20M + 10M = 30M
        plus_val = du2.plusMinutes(minutes);

        // Display plus_val
        System.out.println("du2.plusMinutes(minutes): " + plus_val);
    }
}

Output

du1: PT40M
du2: PT50H20M
minutes to add:10

du1.plusMinutes(minutes): PT50M
du2.plusMinutes(minutes): PT50H30M


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