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

Below program is for the last Friday of each month. it can be used to get the last of any day of the week in any month. The variable offset=0 means current month(system date), offset=1 means next month, so on. The getLastFridayofMonth(int offset) method will return the last Friday.

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

public class LastFriday {

  public static Calendar getLastFriday(Calendar cal,int offset){
    int dayofweek;//1-Sunday,2-Monday so on....
    cal.set(Calendar.MONTH,cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)+offset);
    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)); //set calendar to last day of month
    dayofweek=cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK); //get the day of the week for last day of month set above,1-sunday,2-monday etc
    if(dayofweek