What is Duration.minusMinutes() in Java?

minusMinutes() is an instance method of the Duration class that is used to subtract the specified duration in minutes from the Duration object.

The minusMinutes() method is defined in the Duration class. The Duration class is defined in the java.time package. To import the Duration class, check the following import statement.

import java.time.Duration;

Syntax

public Duration minusMinutes(long minutesToSubtract)

Parameters

  • long minutesToSubtract: The number of minutes to subtract. Can be positive or negative.

Return value

This method returns a new instance of the Duration class with the number of minutes subtracted.

Code

In the below code, we subtract 100 minutes from the baseDuration object with the help of the minusMinutes() method and print the new object to the console.

import java.time.Duration;
public class Main{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // setting up base duration of three days
        Duration baseDuration = Duration.ofDays(3);
        // minutes to be subtracted
        int minutesToSubtract = 100;
        // subtracting the minutes from base duration
        Duration newDuration = baseDuration.minusMinutes(minutesToSubtract);
        // printing
        System.out.printf("%s - %s minutes = %s", baseDuration, minutesToSubtract, newDuration);
        System.out.println();
    }
}

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