Get Last Friday of Month in Java

Question

I am working on a project where the requirement is to have a date calculated as being the last Friday of a given month. I think I have a solution that only uses standard Ja

Answer 1

I would use a library like Jodatime. It has a very useful API and it uses normal month numbers. And best of all, it is thread safe.

I think that you can have a solution with (but possibly not the shortest, but certainly more readable):

DateTime now = new DateTime();      
DateTime dt = now.dayOfMonth().withMaximumValue().withDayOfWeek(DateTimeConstants.FRIDAY);
if (dt.getMonthOfYear() != now.getMonthOfYear()) {
  dt = dt.minusDays(7);
}       
System.out.println(dt);