How to reduce one month from current date and stored in date variable using java? -

how reduce 1 month current date , want sore in java.util.date variable im using code it's shows error in 2nd line

 java.util.date da = new date();  da.add(calendar.month, -1); //error 

how store date in java.util.date variable?

use calendar:

calendar cal = calendar.getinstance(); cal.add(calendar.month, -1); date result = cal.gettime();