How to get the last Sunday before current date?

Question

I have the following code for getting the last Sunday before the current date:

Calendar calendar=Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.set(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR, cale         


        

Answer 1

Here is a snippet to calculate any last day of the week with Joda:

import org.joda.time.DateTime
import org.joda.time.DateTimeConstants

DateTime now = DateTime();
int offset = ((now.dayOfWeek - DateTimeConstants.THURSDAY) + 7) % 7;
DateTime lastThursday = now.minusDays(offset);

Just replace DateTimeConstants.THURSDAY with your day of choice.