Count number of Mondays in a given date range

Question

Given a date range, I need to know how many Mondays (or Tuesdays, Wednesdays, etc) are in that range.

I am currently working in C#.

Answer 1

You could try this, if you want to get specific week days between two dates

public List<DateTime> GetSelectedDaysInPeriod(DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate, List<DayOfWeek> daysToCheck)
{
    var selectedDates = new List<DateTime>();

    if (startDate >= endDate)
        return selectedDates; //No days to return

    if (daysToCheck == null || daysToCheck.Count == 0)
        return selectedDates; //No days to select

    try
    {
        //Get the total number of days between the two dates
        var totalDays = (int)endDate.Subtract(startDate).TotalDays;

        //So.. we're creating a list of all dates between the two dates:
        var allDatesQry = from d in Enumerable.Range(1, totalDays)
                             select new DateTime(
                                                  startDate.AddDays(d).Year,
                                                  startDate.AddDays(d).Month,
                                                  startDate.AddDays(d).Day);

        //And extracting those weekdays we explicitly wanted to return
        var selectedDatesQry = from d in allDatesQry
                                  where daysToCheck.Contains(d.DayOfWeek)
                                  select d;

        //Copying the IEnumerable to a List
        selectedDates = selectedDatesQry.ToList();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        //Log error
        //...

        //And re-throw
        throw;
    }
    return selectedDates;
}

Answer 2

This will return a collection of integers showing how many times each day of the week occurs within a date range

    int[] CountDays(DateTime firstDate, DateTime lastDate)
    {
        var totalDays = lastDate.Date.Subtract(firstDate.Date).TotalDays + 1;
        var weeks = (int)Math.Floor(totalDays / 7);

        var result = Enumerable.Repeat<int>(weeks, 7).ToArray();
        if (totalDays % 7 != 0)
        {
            int firstDayOfWeek = (int)firstDate.DayOfWeek;
            int lastDayOfWeek = (int)lastDate.DayOfWeek;
            if (lastDayOfWeek < firstDayOfWeek)
                lastDayOfWeek += 7;
            for (int dayOfWeek = firstDayOfWeek; dayOfWeek <= lastDayOfWeek; dayOfWeek++)
                result[dayOfWeek % 7]++;
        }
        return result;
    }

Or a slight variation which lets you do FirstDate.TotalDaysOfWeeks(SecondDate) and returns a Dictionary

    public static Dictionary<DayOfWeek, int> TotalDaysOfWeeks(this DateTime firstDate, DateTime lastDate)
    {
        var totalDays = lastDate.Date.Subtract(firstDate.Date).TotalDays + 1;
        var weeks = (int)Math.Floor(totalDays / 7);

        var resultArray = Enumerable.Repeat<int>(weeks, 7).ToArray();
        if (totalDays % 7 != 0)
        {
            int firstDayOfWeek = (int)firstDate.DayOfWeek;
            int lastDayOfWeek = (int)lastDate.DayOfWeek;
            if (lastDayOfWeek < firstDayOfWeek)
                lastDayOfWeek += 7;
            for (int dayOfWeek = firstDayOfWeek; dayOfWeek <= lastDayOfWeek; dayOfWeek++)
                resultArray[dayOfWeek % 7]++;
        }
        var result = new Dictionary<DayOfWeek, int>();
        for (int dayOfWeek = 0; dayOfWeek < 7; dayOfWeek++)
            result[(DayOfWeek)dayOfWeek] = resultArray[dayOfWeek];
        return result;
    }

Answer 3

A bit Modified Code is here works and Tested by me

        private int CountDays(DayOfWeek day, DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate)
        {
            int dayCount = 0;

            for (DateTime dt = startDate; dt < endDate; dt = dt.AddDays(1.0))
            {
                if (dt.DayOfWeek == day)
                {
                    dayCount++;
                }
            }

            return dayCount;
        }

Example:

int Days = CountDays(DayOfWeek.Friday, Convert.ToDateTime("2019-07-04"), 
             Convert.ToDateTime("2019-07-27")).ToString();

Answer 4

Try this:

static int CountDays(DayOfWeek day, DateTime start, DateTime end)
{
    TimeSpan ts = end - start;                       // Total duration
    int count = (int)Math.Floor(ts.TotalDays / 7);   // Number of whole weeks
    int remainder = (int)(ts.TotalDays % 7);         // Number of remaining days
    int sinceLastDay = (int)(end.DayOfWeek - day);   // Number of days since last [day]
    if (sinceLastDay < 0) sinceLastDay += 7;         // Adjust for negative days since last [day]

    // If the days in excess of an even week are greater than or equal to the number days since the last [day], then count this one, too.
    if (remainder >= sinceLastDay) count++;          

    return count;
}

Answer 5

Add the smallest possible number to make the first day a Monday. Subtract the smallest possible number to make the last day a Monday. Calculate the difference in days and divide by 7.

Answer 6

Since you're using C#, if you're using C#3.0, you can use LINQ.

Assuming you have an Array/List/IQueryable etc that contains your dates as DateTime types:

DateTime[] dates = { new DateTime(2008,10,6), new DateTime(2008,10,7)}; //etc....

var mondays = dates.Where(d => d.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Monday); // = {10/6/2008}

Added:

Not sure if you meant grouping them and counting them, but here's how to do that in LINQ as well:

var datesgrouped = from d in dates
                   group d by d.DayOfWeek into grouped
                   select new { WeekDay = grouped.Key, Days = grouped };

foreach (var g in datesgrouped)
{
    Console.Write (String.Format("{0} : {1}", g.WeekDay,g.Days.Count());
}