Retrieve current week's Monday's date

Question

We have a utility that will run any day between Monday - Friday. It will update some number of files inside a Content Management Tool. The last modified date associated with

Answer 1

It won't work if the currents week monday is the month before... For example if today is Friday 1st of June... You should probably rather use the roll method...

Answer 2

The following will work, including wrapping months:

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());

If, however, you edit your application on a Sunday (eg. Sunday 12 Feb), the date will be for the following Monday. Based on your requirements (the app will only run Monday thru Friday), this should not pose a problem.