Joda time - all mondays between two dates

Question

I am using Joda time api in a Spring 3.0 project for the very first time. Now I have a start and end date and I want to get the date for all mondays between these two dates.

Answer 1

FYI, the Joda-Time project is now in maintenance mode, with the team advising migration to the java.time classes.

Using java.time

The LocalDate class is java.time is akin to the Joda-Time LocalDate. A date-only value, without time-of-day and without time zone. One difference is that java.time eschews constructors for factory methods.

LocalDate start = LocalDate.of( 2011 , 11 , 8 );
LocalDate stop = LocalDate.of( 2012 , 5 , 1 );

Collect the Mondays.

List mondays = new ArrayList<>();

The TemporalAdjuster interface provides for classes that manipulate date-time values. The TemporalAdjusters class (note the plural name) provides various implementations. We want the nextOrSame and next adjusters, passing the desired DayOfWeek.MONDAY enum object.

LocalDate monday = start.with( TemporalAdjusters.nextOrSame( DayOfWeek.MONDAY ) );
while( monday.isBefore( stop ) ) {
    mondays.add( monday );
    // Set up the next loop.
    monday = monday.plusWeeks( 1 );
}

By the way, usually the wise approach in handling a span of time is Half-Open where the beginning is inclusive while the ending is exclusive. So in the code above we are running up to, but not including, the stop date.

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About java.time

The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.

The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.

To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.

Where to obtain the java.time classes?

• Java SE 8 and SE 9 and later
  • Built-in.
  • Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.
  • Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.
• Java SE 6 and SE 7
  • Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.
• Android
  • The ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above) for Android specifically.
  • See How to use ThreeTenABP….

The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.