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Java Date Time - OffsetDateTime.plus() Examples

[Last Updated: Nov 8, 2025]

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Class:

java.time.OffsetDateTime

java.lang.Objectjava.lang.Objectjava.time.OffsetDateTimejava.time.OffsetDateTimejava.time.temporal.TemporalTemporaljava.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusterTemporalAdjusterjava.lang.ComparableComparablejava.io.SerializableSerializableLogicBig

Methods:

public OffsetDateTime plus(TemporalAmount amountToAdd)

amountToAdd: Period or Duration or user implementation of TemporalAmount.


public OffsetDateTime plus(long amountToAdd,
                           TemporalUnit unit)

unit: e.g. ChronoUnit#DAYS, ChronoUnit#HOURS etc



Examples


package com.logicbig.example.offsetdatetime;

import java.time.Duration;
import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.time.Period;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;

public class PlusExample {

    public static void main(String... args) {
        OffsetDateTime d = OffsetDateTime.of(2015, 11, 15, 18, 20, 30, 100,
                ZoneOffset.ofHours(-6));
        OffsetDateTime d2 = d.plus(Period.ofDays(1000));
        System.out.println(d2);

        OffsetDateTime d3 = d.plus(Duration.ofHours(5000));
        System.out.println(d3);

        OffsetDateTime d4 = d.plus(Duration.ofMinutes(-300));
        System.out.println(d4);
    }
}

Output

2018-08-11T18:20:30.000000100-06:00
2016-06-11T02:20:30.000000100-06:00
2015-11-15T13:20:30.000000100-06:00




package com.logicbig.example.offsetdatetime;

import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;

public class PlusExample2 {

    public static void main(String... args) {
        OffsetDateTime d = OffsetDateTime.of(2016, 9, 10, 22, 45, 38, 20000,
                ZoneOffset.ofHours(-5));
        OffsetDateTime d2 = d.plus(2000, ChronoUnit.HALF_DAYS);
        System.out.println(d2);

        OffsetDateTime d3 = d.plus(3500, ChronoUnit.HOURS);
        System.out.println(d3);

        OffsetDateTime d4 = d.plus(-1000, ChronoUnit.DAYS);
        System.out.println(d4);
    }
}

Output

2016-12-30T22:45:38.000020-05:00
2017-02-03T18:45:38.000020-05:00
2013-12-15T22:45:38.000020-05:00

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