add a year in apex

This is a ridiculously simple question and just involves date formatting. Hoping one of the brains on here can figure this out before I do.

I just want to add 1 year to the current year.

So if I've got

DateTime dt=System.now();
String str=dt.format('yyyy');

I just want to add 1 year to that string, so I can refer to it in my code. That's it.

This has got to be super easy I just am too dumb to see it yet.

Thanks guys

March 22, 2013
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Devendra@SFDC
Hi,

You can use addYears() method of DataTime.

DateTime newDate = System.Now().addYears(1);

DateTime Methods documentation:
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_methods_system_datetime.htm

Hope this helps :)

Thanks,
Devendra