Retrieve date of the prior Tuesday

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I need to retrieve the date, month, and year of the last Tuesday relative to any given date. For example, today is Friday, 1st March 2013. I want my method to return the date of the prior Tuesday: 26th February, 2013. How can I achieve this?

I haven't tried this, as I do not know how to achieve this. My input will be today's date , Datetime.Now, and I require the last tuesday's info as output — Sameek Kundu, Mar 01 '13 at 17:29
So google is not working, then for a start point you may read [ASP.net get the next tuesday](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6346119/asp-net-get-the-next-tuesday) — Mahmut Ali ÖZKURAN, Mar 01 '13 at 17:36

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '13 at 17:41

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This should do the trick.

var yesterday = DateTime.Now;

while(yesterday.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Tuesday) {
  yesterday = yesterday.AddDays(-1);
}

answered Mar 01 '13 at 17:41

bmavity

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '13 at 17:50

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I'd do something like this:

var lastTuesday = DateTime.Today.AddDays(
     -1 * (DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek - DayOfWeek.Tuesday));  
var lastMonday = DateTime.Today.AddDays(
     -1 * (DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek - DayOfWeek.Monday));

answered Mar 01 '13 at 17:50

JerKimball

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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This was essentially answered here: Get date of first Monday of the week?

DateTime input = DateTime.Now;
int delta = DayOfWeek.Tuesday - input.DayOfWeek;
DateTime tuesday = input.AddDays(delta);

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered Mar 01 '13 at 18:35

Tim

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Retrieve date of the prior Tuesday

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