How to get the first day of the current week and month?

Asked 30/5, 2010 at 0:27 Answered 12/6, 2020 at 10:27

I have the date of several events expressed in milliseconds[1], and I want to know which events are inside the current week and the current month, but I can't figure out how to obtain the first day (day/month/year) of the running week and convert it to milliseconds, the same for the first day of the month.

[1]Since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT

Guenon answered 30/5, 2010 at 0:27 Comment(2)

How to get the first day of the month? It's the one numbered 1... – Maybe 30/5, 2010 at 0:36

Yeah, but how to get the name of the 1st day of the month? – Incursive 11/2, 2014 at 19:39

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This week in milliseconds:

// get today and clear time of day
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0); // ! clear would not reset the hour of day !
cal.clear(Calendar.MINUTE);
cal.clear(Calendar.SECOND);
cal.clear(Calendar.MILLISECOND);

// get start of this week in milliseconds
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, cal.getFirstDayOfWeek());
System.out.println("Start of this week:       " + cal.getTime());
System.out.println("... in milliseconds:      " + cal.getTimeInMillis());

// start of the next week
cal.add(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR, 1);
System.out.println("Start of the next week:   " + cal.getTime());
System.out.println("... in milliseconds:      " + cal.getTimeInMillis());

This month in milliseconds:

// get today and clear time of day
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0); // ! clear would not reset the hour of day !
cal.clear(Calendar.MINUTE);
cal.clear(Calendar.SECOND);
cal.clear(Calendar.MILLISECOND);

// get start of the month
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
System.out.println("Start of the month:       " + cal.getTime());
System.out.println("... in milliseconds:      " + cal.getTimeInMillis());

// get start of the next month
cal.add(Calendar.MONTH, 1);
System.out.println("Start of the next month:  " + cal.getTime());
System.out.println("... in milliseconds:      " + cal.getTimeInMillis());

Palpable answered 30/5, 2010 at 10:26 Comment(10)

also need clear am_pm for start of a day cal.clear(Calendar.AM_PM); – Vevay 23/10, 2012 at 6:58

@keshin: True. I replaced the lines cal.clear(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY); with cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0); like instructed in the javadoc of Calendar. – Palpable 21/12, 2012 at 6:41

@COMEFROM why do you suggest to use clear?whats the benefit if i use and what error would I expect If I dont use? – Shimmy 11/2, 2015 at 10:57

@SpringLearner: Days and weeks and months all begin and end at midnight. However, Calendar.getInstance does not usually return a Calendar instance pointing to a midnight (00:00:00.000). So, to find out a beginning or the end of a day (or a week or a month), resetting the time of the day is needed. – Palpable 11/2, 2015 at 12:28

@COMEFROM even I do not clear then also it worked so just interested why you made it – Shimmy 11/2, 2015 at 12:29

@SpringLearner: I do it because it is needed to solve the problem at hand this way. I can't really say anything about what you have done. If you have an alternative solution to this problem, then you could post an answer. – Palpable 11/2, 2015 at 12:36

@COMEFROM no no,I do not have alternate answer,I did as you posted here but I was confused why you did clear.So asked,thanks anyway – Shimmy 11/2, 2015 at 12:40

@SpringLearner: Clearing is needed to make the Calendar instance point to a midnight instead of some other time of a day. That's all I can say about it. If you don't clear the time, then you'll probably have the Calendar pointing at some other time of a day. That's certainly not satisfactory if you need the first millisecond of a day. – Palpable 11/2, 2015 at 12:57

Would be the answer! – Haddington 12/5, 2021 at 8:2

In modern Java, the terribly flawed date-time classes such as Calendar have been supplanted by the modern java.time classes defined in JSR 310. – Whity 24/2 at 8:8

The first day of week can be determined with help of java.util.Calendar as follows:

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.clear();
calendar.setTimeInMillis(timestamp);
while (calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) > calendar.getFirstDayOfWeek()) {
    calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, -1); // Substract 1 day until first day of week.
}
long firstDayOfWeekTimestamp = calendar.getTimeInMillis();

The first day of month can be determined as follows:

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.clear();
calendar.setTimeInMillis(timestamp);
while (calendar.get(Calendar.DATE) > 1) {
    calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, -1); // Substract 1 day until first day of month.
}
long firstDayOfMonthTimestamp = calendar.getTimeInMillis();

Pretty verbose, yes.

Java 7 will come with a much improved Date and Time API (JSR-310). If you can't switch yet, then you can as far use JodaTime which makes it all less complicated:

DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(timestamp);
long firstDayOfWeekTimestamp = dateTime.withDayOfWeek(1).getMillis();

and

DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(timestamp);
long firstDayOfMonthTimestamp = dateTime.withDayOfMonth(1).getMillis();

Dejection answered 30/5, 2010 at 0:46 Comment(5)

Thanks a lot, I'm on development of my first Android app, on a completely new world, the world of Java, and i'd never heard about joda but i'm not sure about joda+android. Thanks again! – Guenon 30/5, 2010 at 1:55

You're welcome. Using JodaTime is just a matter of downloading the JAR and placing it in the classpath. As with every other "3rd party" library. – Dejection 30/5, 2010 at 2:19

@cesar, where do you state in the question or in the tags that this is for Android? – Glib 30/5, 2010 at 10:32

Though keep in mind that jodatime may turn your 30kb app into a 300kb app. – Massimo 30/5, 2010 at 10:54

Good answer. I suggest also passing a DateTimeZone object to the DateTime constructor rather than implicitly rely on the JVM’s current default time zone to be assigned. – Whity 21/10, 2014 at 17:2

java.time

The java.time framework in Java 8 and later supplants the old java.util.Date/.Calendar classes. The old classes have proven to be troublesome, confusing, and flawed. Avoid them.

The java.time framework is inspired by the highly-successful Joda-Time library, defined by JSR 310, extended by the ThreeTen-Extra project, and explained in the Tutorial.

`Instant`

The Instant class represents a moment on the timeline in UTC.

The java.time framework has a resolution of nanoseconds, or 9 digits of a fractional second. Milliseconds is only 3 digits of a fractional second. Because millisecond resolution is common, java.time includes a handy factory method.

long millisecondsSinceEpoch = 1446959825213L;
Instant instant = Instant.ofEpochMilli ( millisecondsSinceEpoch );

millisecondsSinceEpoch: 1446959825213 is instant: 2015-11-08T05:17:05.213Z

`ZonedDateTime`

To consider current week and current month, we need to apply a particular time zone.

ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of ( "America/Montreal" );
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant ( instant , zoneId );

In zoneId: America/Montreal that is: 2015-11-08T00:17:05.213-05:00[America/Montreal]

Half-Open

In date-time work, we commonly use the Half-Open approach to defining a span of time. The beginning is inclusive while the ending in exclusive. Rather than try to determine the last split-second of the end of the week (or month), we get the first moment of the following week (or month). So a week runs from the first moment of Monday and goes up to but not including the first moment of the following Monday.

Let's the first day of the week, and last. The java.time framework includes a tool for that, the with method and the ChronoField enum.

By default, java.time uses the ISO 8601 standard. So Monday is the first day of the week (1) and Sunday is last (7).

ZonedDateTime firstOfWeek = zdt.with ( ChronoField.DAY_OF_WEEK , 1 ); // ISO 8601, Monday is first day of week.
ZonedDateTime firstOfNextWeek = firstOfWeek.plusWeeks ( 1 );

That week runs from: 2015-11-02T00:17:05.213-05:00[America/Montreal] to 2015-11-09T00:17:05.213-05:00[America/Montreal]

Oops! Look at the time-of-day on those values. We want the first moment of the day. The first moment of the day is not always 00:00:00.000 because of Daylight Saving Time (DST) or other anomalies. So we should let java.time make the adjustment on our behalf. To do that, we must go through the LocalDate class.

ZonedDateTime firstOfWeek = zdt.with ( ChronoField.DAY_OF_WEEK , 1 ); // ISO 8601, Monday is first day of week.
firstOfWeek = firstOfWeek.toLocalDate ().atStartOfDay ( zoneId );
ZonedDateTime firstOfNextWeek = firstOfWeek.plusWeeks ( 1 );

That week runs from: 2015-11-02T00:00-05:00[America/Montreal] to 2015-11-09T00:00-05:00[America/Montreal]

And same for the month.

ZonedDateTime firstOfMonth = zdt.with ( ChronoField.DAY_OF_MONTH , 1 );
firstOfMonth = firstOfMonth.toLocalDate ().atStartOfDay ( zoneId );
ZonedDateTime firstOfNextMonth = firstOfMonth.plusMonths ( 1 );

That month runs from: 2015-11-01T00:00-04:00[America/Montreal] to 2015-12-01T00:00-05:00[America/Montreal]

`YearMonth`

Another way to see if a pair of moments are in the same month is to check for the same YearMonth value.

For example, assuming thisZdt and thatZdt are both ZonedDateTime objects:

boolean inSameMonth = YearMonth.from( thisZdt ).equals( YearMonth.from( thatZdt ) ) ;

Milliseconds

I strongly recommend against doing your date-time work in milliseconds-from-epoch. That is indeed the way date-time classes tend to work internally, but we have the classes for a reason. Handling a count-from-epoch is clumsy as the values are not intelligible by humans so debugging and logging is difficult and error-prone. And, as we've already seen, different resolutions may be in play; old Java classes and Joda-Time library use milliseconds, while databases like Postgres use microseconds, and now java.time uses nanoseconds.

Would you handle text as bits, or do you let classes such as String, StringBuffer, and StringBuilder handle such details?

But if you insist, from a ZonedDateTime get an Instant, and from that get a milliseconds-count-from-epoch. But keep in mind this call can mean loss of data. Any microseconds or nanoseconds that you might have in your ZonedDateTime/Instant will be truncated (lost).

long millis = firstOfWeek.toInstant().toEpochMilli();  // Possible data loss.

About java.time

The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.

To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.

The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.

You may exchange java.time objects directly with your database. Use a JDBC driver compliant with JDBC 4.2 or later. No need for strings, no need for java.sql.* classes.

Where to obtain the java.time classes?

Java SE 8, Java SE 9, Java SE 10, Java SE 11, and later - Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
- Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
Java SE 6 and Java SE 7
- Most of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
Android
- Later versions of Android bundle implementations of the java.time classes.
- For earlier Android (<26), the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above). See How to use ThreeTenABP….

Whity answered 8/11, 2015 at 5:48 Comment(1)

This is the only way to go if one is working with timezones. The old Calendar/Date does not cover it. Thanks for the post Basil, I found it very useful. – Comedietta 11/9, 2021 at 7:8

You can use the java.time package (since Java8 and late) to get start/end of day/week/month.
The util class example below:

import org.junit.Test;

import java.time.DayOfWeek;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.LocalTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateUtil {
    private static final ZoneId DEFAULT_ZONE_ID = ZoneId.of("UTC");

    public static LocalDateTime startOfDay() {
        return LocalDateTime.now(DEFAULT_ZONE_ID).with(LocalTime.MIN);
    }

    public static LocalDateTime endOfDay() {
        return LocalDateTime.now(DEFAULT_ZONE_ID).with(LocalTime.MAX);
    }

    public static boolean belongsToCurrentDay(final LocalDateTime localDateTime) {
        return localDateTime.isAfter(startOfDay()) && localDateTime.isBefore(endOfDay());
    }

    //note that week starts with Monday
    public static LocalDateTime startOfWeek() {
        return LocalDateTime.now(DEFAULT_ZONE_ID)
                .with(LocalTime.MIN)
                .with(TemporalAdjusters.previousOrSame(DayOfWeek.MONDAY));
    }

    //note that week ends with Sunday
    public static LocalDateTime endOfWeek() {
        return LocalDateTime.now(DEFAULT_ZONE_ID)
                .with(LocalTime.MAX)
                .with(TemporalAdjusters.nextOrSame(DayOfWeek.SUNDAY));
    }

    public static boolean belongsToCurrentWeek(final LocalDateTime localDateTime) {
        return localDateTime.isAfter(startOfWeek()) && localDateTime.isBefore(endOfWeek());
    }

    public static LocalDateTime startOfMonth() {
        return LocalDateTime.now(DEFAULT_ZONE_ID)
                .with(LocalTime.MIN)
                .with(TemporalAdjusters.firstDayOfMonth());
    }

    public static LocalDateTime endOfMonth() {
        return LocalDateTime.now(DEFAULT_ZONE_ID)
                .with(LocalTime.MAX)
                .with(TemporalAdjusters.lastDayOfMonth());
    }

    public static boolean belongsToCurrentMonth(final LocalDateTime localDateTime) {
        return localDateTime.isAfter(startOfMonth()) && localDateTime.isBefore(endOfMonth());
    }

    public static long toMills(final LocalDateTime localDateTime) {
        return localDateTime.atZone(DEFAULT_ZONE_ID).toInstant().toEpochMilli();
    }

    public static Date toDate(final LocalDateTime localDateTime) {
        return Date.from(localDateTime.atZone(DEFAULT_ZONE_ID).toInstant());
    }

    public static String toString(final LocalDateTime localDateTime) {
        return localDateTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE_TIME);
    }

    @Test
    public void test() {
        //day
        final LocalDateTime now = LocalDateTime.now();
        System.out.println("Now: " + toString(now) + ", in mills: " + toMills(now));
        System.out.println("Start of day: " + toString(startOfDay()));
        System.out.println("End of day: " + toString(endOfDay()));
        System.out.println("Does '" + toString(now) + "' belong to the current day? > " + belongsToCurrentDay(now));
        final LocalDateTime yesterday = now.minusDays(1);
        System.out.println("Does '" + toString(yesterday) + "' belong to the current day? > " + belongsToCurrentDay(yesterday));
        final LocalDateTime tomorrow = now.plusDays(1);
        System.out.println("Does '" + toString(tomorrow) + "' belong to the current day? > " + belongsToCurrentDay(tomorrow));
        //week
        System.out.println("Start of week: " + toString(startOfWeek()));
        System.out.println("End of week: " + toString(endOfWeek()));
        System.out.println("Does '" + toString(now) + "' belong to the current week? > " + belongsToCurrentWeek(now));
        final LocalDateTime previousWeek = now.minusWeeks(1);
        System.out.println("Does '" + toString(previousWeek) + "' belong to the current week? > " + belongsToCurrentWeek(previousWeek));
        final LocalDateTime nextWeek = now.plusWeeks(1);
        System.out.println("Does '" + toString(nextWeek) + "' belong to the current week? > " + belongsToCurrentWeek(nextWeek));
        //month
        System.out.println("Start of month: " + toString(startOfMonth()));
        System.out.println("End of month: " + toString(endOfMonth()));
        System.out.println("Does '" + toString(now) + "' belong to the current month? > " + belongsToCurrentMonth(now));
        final LocalDateTime previousMonth = now.minusMonths(1);
        System.out.println("Does '" + toString(previousMonth) + "' belong to the current month? > " + belongsToCurrentMonth(previousMonth));
        final LocalDateTime nextMonth = now.plusMonths(1);
        System.out.println("Does '" + toString(nextMonth) + "' belong to the current month? > " + belongsToCurrentMonth(nextMonth));
    }
}

Test output:

Now: 2020-02-16T22:12:49.957, in mills: 1581891169957
Start of day: 2020-02-16T00:00:00
End of day: 2020-02-16T23:59:59.999999999
Does '2020-02-16T22:12:49.957' belong to the current day? > true
Does '2020-02-15T22:12:49.957' belong to the current day? > false
Does '2020-02-17T22:12:49.957' belong to the current day? > false
Start of week: 2020-02-10T00:00:00
End of week: 2020-02-16T23:59:59.999999999
Does '2020-02-16T22:12:49.957' belong to the current week? > true
Does '2020-02-09T22:12:49.957' belong to the current week? > false
Does '2020-02-23T22:12:49.957' belong to the current week? > false
Start of month: 2020-02-01T00:00:00
End of month: 2020-02-29T23:59:59.999999999
Does '2020-02-16T22:12:49.957' belong to the current month? > true
Does '2020-01-16T22:12:49.957' belong to the current month? > false
Does '2020-03-16T22:12:49.957' belong to the current month? > false

Dogvane answered 16/2, 2020 at 19:15 Comment(1)

Thanks for the thorough demonstration. Two suggestions: (1) Prefer ZonedDateTime or OffsetDateTime for a date and time that needs to represent a fixed point on the timeline. (2) Define the end of the day as the first moment of the next day exclusive, defining the day (and thereby the week and the month) as a half-open interval. It’s more correct (not excluding the last nanosecond from the day) and sometimes gives simpler code. – Sarcocarp 16/2, 2020 at 21:11

Attention!

while (calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) > calendar.getFirstDayOfWeek()) {
    calendar.add(Calendar.DATE, -1); // Substract 1 day until first day of week.
}

is good idea, but there is some issue: For example, i'm from Ukraine and calendar.getFirstDayOfWeek() in my country is 2 (Monday). And today is 1 (Sunday). In this case calendar.add not called.

So, correct way is change ">" to "!=":

while (calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) != calendar.getFirstDayOfWeek()) {...

Shearwater answered 7/10, 2012 at 16:6 Comment(0)

I have created some methods for this:

public static String catchLastDayOfCurrentWeek(String pattern) {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
    cal.clear(Calendar.MINUTE);
    cal.clear(Calendar.SECOND);
    cal.clear(Calendar.MILLISECOND);

    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, cal.getFirstDayOfWeek());

    return calendarToString(cal, pattern);
}

public static String catchLastDayOfCurrentWeek(String pattern) {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
    cal.clear(Calendar.MINUTE);
    cal.clear(Calendar.SECOND);
    cal.clear(Calendar.MILLISECOND);

    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, cal.getFirstDayOfWeek());

    cal.add(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR, 1);
    cal.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, -1);

    return calendarToString(cal, pattern);
}

public static String catchTheFirstDayOfThemonth(Integer month, pattern padrao) {
    Calendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
    cal.setTime(new Date());
    cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, month);
    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);

    return calendarToString(cal, pattern);
}

public static String catchTheLastDayOfThemonth(Integer month, String pattern) {
    Calendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
    cal.setTime(new Date());
    cal.set(cal.get(Calendar.YEAR), month, cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));

    return calendarToString(cal, pattern);
}

public static String calendarToString(Calendar calendar, String pattern) {
    if (calendar == null) {
        return "";
    }
    SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, LocaleUtils.DEFAULT_LOCALE);
    return format.format(calendar.getTime());
}

You can see more here.

Osteitis answered 6/12, 2016 at 18:56 Comment(0)

To get the first day of the month, simply get a Date and set the current day to day 1 of the month. Clear hour, minute, second and milliseconds if you need it.

private static Date firstDayOfMonth(Date date) {
   Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
   calendar.setTime(date);
   calendar.set(Calendar.DATE, 1);
   return calendar.getTime();
}

First day of the week is the same thing, but using Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK instead

private static Date firstDayOfWeek(Date date) {
   Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
   calendar.setTime(date);
   calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 1);
   return calendar.getTime();
}

Tristich answered 22/8, 2012 at 15:0 Comment(2)

Can you give any suggestions on how to extract all days of the week where the selected date is present in? – Corriveau 13/11, 2013 at 10:4

import java.time.DayOfWeek; DayOfWeek[] daysOfWeek = DayOfWeek.values(); – Roosevelt 1/9, 2020 at 11:57

A one-line solution using Java 8 features

In Java

LocalDateTime firstOfWeek = LocalDateTime.now().with(ChronoField.DAY_OF_WEEK, 1).toLocalDate().atStartOfDay(); // 2020-06-08 00:00 MONDAY
LocalDateTime firstOfMonth = LocalDateTime.now().with(ChronoField.DAY_OF_MONTH , 1).toLocalDate().atStartOfDay(); // 2020-06-01 00:00
// Convert to milliseconds: 
firstOfWeek.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant().toEpochMilli();

In Kotlin

val firstOfWeek = LocalDateTime.now().with(ChronoField.DAY_OF_WEEK, 1).toLocalDate().atStartOfDay() // 2020-06-08 00:00 MONDAY
val firstOfMonth = LocalDateTime.now().with(ChronoField.DAY_OF_MONTH , 1).toLocalDate().atStartOfDay() // 2020-06-01 00:00
// Convert to milliseconds: 
firstOfWeek.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant().toEpochMilli()

Lymphocyte answered 12/6, 2020 at 10:27 Comment(2)

Any ideas about how to convert LocalDateTime to milliseconds easier? – Lymphocyte 15/6, 2020 at 8:53

Ah, so your idea would be to compare the millisecond values? I’d prefer to compare Instant objects using their isBefore, isEqual or isAfter method. You get an instant trivially from Instant.ofEpochMilli(someMillisecondValue). And yes, the simpler way to convert a LocalDateTime is firstOfWeek.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).toInstant(). – Sarcocarp 15/6, 2020 at 19:31

In this case:

// get today and clear time of day
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.clear(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);  <---- is the current hour not 0 hour
cal.clear(Calendar.MINUTE);
cal.clear(Calendar.SECOND);
cal.clear(Calendar.MILLISECOND);

So the Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY returns 8, 9, 12, 15, 18 as the current running hour. I think will be better change such line by:

c.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,0);

this way the day always begin at 0 hour

Guenon answered 31/5, 2010 at 15:36 Comment(0)

Get First date of next month:-

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy");
String selectedDate="MM-dd-yyyy like 07-02-2018";
Date dt = df.parse(selectedDate);`enter code here`
calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(dt);
calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, calendar.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) + 1);

String firstDate = df.format(calendar.getTime());
System.out.println("firstDateof next month ==>" + firstDate);

Muoimuon answered 2/5, 2018 at 10:38 Comment(0)

You should be able to convert your number to a Java Calendar, e.g.:

 Calendar.getInstance().setTimeInMillis(myDate);

From there, the comparison shouldn't be too hard.

Ainsley answered 30/5, 2010 at 0:37 Comment(0)

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.Scanner;

/**
This Program will display day for, 1st and last days in a given month and year

@author Manoj Kumar Dunna
Mail Id : [email protected]
*/
public class DayOfWeek {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String strDate = null;
        int  year = 0, month = 0;
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Enter YYYY/MM: ");
        strDate = sc.next();
        Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
        String [] date = strDate.split("/");
        year = Integer.parseInt(date[0]);
        month = Integer.parseInt(date[1]);
        cal.set(year, month-1, 1);
        System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE").format(cal.getTime()));
        cal.add(Calendar.MONTH, 1);
        cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, -1);
        System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE").format(cal.getTime()));
    }
}

Athena answered 7/11, 2014 at 10:10 Comment(0)

Simple Solution:
package com.util.calendarutil;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

public class CalUtil {
    public static void main(String args[]){
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/mm/yyyy");
        Date dt = null;
        try {
            dt = df.parse("23/01/2016");
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            System.out.println("Error");
        }

        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setTime(dt);
        cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, cal.getFirstDayOfWeek());
        Date startDate = cal.getTime();
        cal.add(Calendar.DATE, 6);
        Date endDate = cal.getTime();
        System.out.println("Start Date:"+startDate+"End Date:"+endDate);


    }

}

Sick answered 21/1, 2016 at 7:42 Comment(0)

-1

i use this trick to get the first day of the current month note the order is 1 for Sunday 2 for Monday 3 for Tuesday .... and so on

Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
int startDay = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) % 7 + 1;
System.out.println(startDay);

Rigi answered 9/6, 2019 at 20:44 Comment(3)

FYI, the troublesome date-time classes such as java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar, and java.text.SimpleDateFormat are now legacy, supplanted by the java.time classes. Most of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & Java 7 in the ThreeTen-Backport project. Further adapted for earlier Android (<26) in ThreeTenABP. See How to use ThreeTenABP…. – Whity 10/6, 2019 at 1:27

I don’t think you’re answering the question. Maybe a different question. – Sarcocarp 10/6, 2019 at 4:44

It also doesdn’t work. Running your code today, Wednesday, I got 3, which according to you should be for Tuesday. – Sarcocarp 12/6, 2019 at 13:37

-4

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(getMonthlyEpochList(1498867199L,12,"Monthly"));

}

public static Map<String,String> getMonthlyEpochList(Long currentEpoch, int noOfTerms, String timeMode) {
    Map<String,String> map = new LinkedHashMap<String,String>();
    int month = 0;
    while(noOfTerms != 0) {
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();         
        calendar.add(Calendar.MONTH, month);
        calendar.set(Calendar.DATE, calendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
        Date monthFirstDay = calendar.getTime();
        calendar.set(Calendar.DATE, calendar.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
        Date monthLastDay = calendar.getTime();
        map.put(getMMYY(monthFirstDay.getTime()), monthFirstDay + ":" +monthLastDay);
        month--;
        noOfTerms--;
    }
    return map;     
}

Grosswardein answered 14/6, 2017 at 19:39 Comment(2)

Can you tell us why you are adding this as an answer? – Electromagnetic 14/6, 2017 at 19:59

FYI, the troublesome old date-time classes such as java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar, and java.text.SimpleTextFormat are now legacy, supplanted by the java.time classes. See Tutorial by Oracle. – Whity 15/6, 2017 at 4:27

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