Trying to get date of Monday in current week

Question

I have implemented a method to get the date of the Monday in the current week, and I have assigned Monday to be the first day of the week.

But, no matter what I do, it returns Sun Mar 24 15:03:07 GMT 2013. I can't see what the issue is here. Anybody able to help?

public static Date getFirstDayOfWeekDate()
{
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.setFirstDayOfWeek(2);
    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK,
    cal.getActualMinimum(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
    Date firstDayOfTheWeek = cal.getTime();
    return firstDayOfTheWeek;
}

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '13 at 15:18

try this :

public static Date getFirstDayOfWeekDate() {
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK,
            cal.getActualMinimum(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
    Date now = new Date();
    cal.setTime(now);
    int week = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
    return new Date(now.getTime() - 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 * (week - 1));
}

dreambit.io dreambitio · Answer 2 · 2017-09-11T11:18:42.397

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It works for me:

    Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    c.setFirstDayOfWeek(Calendar.MONDAY);
    c.setTime(new Date());
    int today = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
    c.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, -today+Calendar.MONDAY);
    System.out.println("Date "+c.getTime());

edited Sep 11 '17 at 11:18

answered Mar 19 '13 at 15:10

dreambit.io dreambitio

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This gives me the next Monday. – b4da Sep 15 '13 at 14:07

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '13 at 15:14

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Just add one to the day of the week:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, cal.getActualMinimum(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) + 1);
return cal.getTime();

answered Mar 19 '13 at 15:14

rancidfishbreath

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Shortest way, but it's missing cal.setFirstDayOfWeek(Calendar.MONDAY); – Pimentoso Mar 21 '18 at 12:29

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Or with JodaTime

LocalDate.now().withDayOfWeek(DateTimeConstants.MONDAY);

From Joda Time: First day of week?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Mar 19 '13 at 15:22

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Trying to get date of Monday in current week

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