Error “this method must return a result of type int”?

Question

I have this code below and it keep telling me that thanksgiving() must return a result type of int. I have casted all the results just to make sure, but nothing seems to be work

Answer 1

You need something like this

public static int thanksgiving(int year)
{
    int day = firstOfMonth( year );
    if ( day == THURS )
    {
        return (int) 22;
    } else if ( day > THURS )
    {
        return (int) 29 - ( day - THURS );
    } else {
        return (int) 22 + ( THURS + day );
    }
}