Start and end date of a current month

Question

I need the start date and the end date of the current month in Java. When the JSP page is loaded with the current month it should automatically calculate the start and end d

Answer 1

Making it more modular, you can have one main function that calculates startDate or EndDate and than you can have individual methods to getMonthStartDate, getMonthEndDate and to getMonthStartEndDate. Use methods as per your requirement.

public static String getMonthStartEndDate(){
    String start = getMonthDate("START");
    String end = getMonthDate("END");
    String result = start + " to " + end;
    return result;
}

public static String getMonthStartDate(){
    String start = getMonthDate("START");
    return start;
}

public static String getMonthEndDate(){
    String end = getMonthDate("END");
    return end;
}

/**
 * @param filter 
 * START for start date of month e.g.  Nov 01, 2013
 * END for end date of month e.g.  Nov 30, 2013
 * @return
 */
public static String getMonthDate(String filter){
            String MMM_DD_COMMA_YYYY       = "MMM dd, yyyy";
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(MMM_DD_COMMA_YYYY);
    sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("PST"));
    sdf.format(GregorianCalendar.getInstance().getTime());

    Calendar cal =  GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
    int date = cal.getActualMinimum(Calendar.DATE);
    if("END".equalsIgnoreCase(filter)){
        date = cal.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DATE);
    }
    cal.set(Calendar.DATE, date);
    String result =  sdf.format(cal.getTime());
    System.out.println(" " + result  );

    return result;
}