How to get previous/last Saturday for a given date in Java?

Question

For example:- String fromDate="09/18/2020"; I want my actual fromDate to be last Saturday that is "09/12/2020" .

Another example:- String fromDate="09/01/2020"; I want my actual fromDate to be last Saturday that is "08/29/2020" .

Answer 1

TemporalAdjusters.previous

import java.time.DayOfWeek;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters;
import java.util.Locale;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String fromDate = "09/18/2020";
        DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("M/d/u", Locale.ENGLISH);

        LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(fromDate, dtf);

        LocalDate result = date.with(TemporalAdjusters.previous(DayOfWeek.SATURDAY));

        // Default LocalDate#toString implementation
        System.out.println(result);

        // Formatted
        System.out.println(result.format(dtf));
    }
}

Output:

2020-09-12
9/12/2020

Learn more about the modern date-time API from Trail: Date Time.

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