Count number of Mondays in a given date range

Question

Given a date range, I need to know how many Mondays (or Tuesdays, Wednesdays, etc) are in that range.

I am currently working in C#.

Answer 1

It's fun to look at different algorithm's for calculating day of week, and @Gabe Hollombe's pointing to WP on the subject was a great idea (and I remember implementing Zeller's Congruence in COBOL about twenty years ago), but it was rather along the line of handing someone a blueprint of a clock when all they asked what time it was.

In C#:

    private int CountMondays(DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate)
    {
        int mondayCount = 0;

        for (DateTime dt = startDate; dt < endDate; dt = dt.AddDays(1.0))
        {
            if (dt.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Monday)
            {
                mondayCount++;
            }
        }

        return mondayCount;
    }

This of course does not evaluate the end date for "Mondayness", so if this was desired, make the for loop evaluate

dt < endDate.AddDays(1.0)