How can I get the DateTime for the start of the week?

Question

How do I find the start of the week (both Sunday and Monday) knowing just the current time in C#?

Something like:

DateTime.Now.StartWeek(Monday);
         


        

Answer 1

Calculating this way lets you choose which day of the week indicates the start of a new week (in the example I chose Monday).

Note that doing this calculation for a day that is a Monday will give the current Monday and not the previous one.

//Replace with whatever input date you want
DateTime inputDate = DateTime.Now;

//For this example, weeks start on Monday
int startOfWeek = (int)DayOfWeek.Monday;

//Calculate the number of days it has been since the start of the week
int daysSinceStartOfWeek = ((int)inputDate.DayOfWeek + 7 - startOfWeek) % 7;

DateTime previousStartOfWeek = inputDate.AddDays(-daysSinceStartOfWeek);