How to get ordinal Weekdays in a Month

Question

hi i want to make a program in java where days,weekNo is parameter ..Like First Friday of the month or second Monday of the month ..and it returns the date

Answer 1

  public static Date getDate(int day, int weekNo, int month, int year) {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.set(Calendar.DATE,1);
    cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
    cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, month);
    for (int i = 0; i < 31; i++) {
        if (cal.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH) == weekNo
                && cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) == day) {
            return cal.getTime();
        }
        cal.add(Calendar.DATE,1);
    }
    return null;
  }

Calling code

System.out.println(""+getDate(Calendar.MONDAY, 2, Calendar.DECEMBER,2010));

Output

Mon Dec 06 15:09:00 IST 2010

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• Also look at Joda Time it is better