Get first and last day of month using threeten, LocalDate

Question

I have a LocalDate which needs to get the first and last day of the month. How do I do that?

eg. 13/2/2014 I need to get 1/2/2014 and

Answer 1

You can try this to avoid indicating custom date and if there is need to display start and end dates of current month:

    LocalDate start = LocalDate.now().minusDays(LocalDate.now().getDayOfMonth()-1);
    LocalDate end = LocalDate.now().minusDays(LocalDate.now().getDayOfMonth()).plusMonths(1);
    System.out.println("Start of month: " + start);
    System.out.println("End of month: " + end);

Result:

>     Start of month: 2019-12-01
>     End of month: 2019-12-30

Answer 2

If anyone comes looking for first day of previous month and last day of previous month:

public static LocalDate firstDayOfPreviousMonth(LocalDate date) {
        return date.minusMonths(1).withDayOfMonth(1);
    }


public static LocalDate lastDayOfPreviousMonth(LocalDate date) {
        return date.withDayOfMonth(1).minusDays(1);
    }

Answer 3

YearMonth

For completeness, and more elegant in my opinion, see this use of YearMonth class.

YearMonth month = YearMonth.from(date);
LocalDate start = month.atDay(1);
LocalDate end   = month.atEndOfMonth();

For the first & last day of the current month, this becomes:

LocalDate start = YearMonth.now().atDay(1);
LocalDate end   = YearMonth.now().atEndOfMonth();

Answer 4

Jon Skeets answer is right and has deserved my upvote, just adding this slightly different solution for completeness:

import static java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters.lastDayOfMonth;

LocalDate initial = LocalDate.of(2014, 2, 13);
LocalDate start = initial.withDayOfMonth(1);
LocalDate end = initial.with(lastDayOfMonth());