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

Slightly easier to read, brute-force approach:

public int getLastFriday(int month, int year) {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.set(year, month, 1, 0, 0, 0); // set to first day of the month
    cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);

    int friday = -1;
    while (cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) == month) { 
        if (cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) == Calendar.FRIDAY) { // is it a friday?
            friday = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
            cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 7); // skip 7 days
        } else {
            cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1); // skip 1 day
        }
    }
    return friday;
}