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

here's how to get the last friday, or whatever week day, of the month:

Calendar thisMonth = Calendar.getInstance();
dayOfWeek = Calendar.FRIDAY; // or whatever
thisMonth.set(Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH, thisMonth.getActualMaximum(Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH);;
thisMonth.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, dayOfWeek);
int lastDay = thisMonth.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH); // this should be it.