How to get the last date of a particular month with JodaTime?

Question

I need to get the first date (as org.joda.time.LocalDate) of a month and the last one. Getting the first is trivial, but getting the last seems to need some log

Answer 1

How about:

LocalDate endOfMonth = date.dayOfMonth().withMaximumValue();

dayOfMonth() returns a LocalDate.Property which represents the "day of month" field in a way which knows the originating LocalDate.

As it happens, the withMaximumValue() method is even documented to recommend it for this particular task:

This operation is useful for obtaining a LocalDate on the last day of the month, as month lengths vary.

LocalDate lastDayOfMonth = dt.dayOfMonth().withMaximumValue();

Answer 2

An old question, but a top google result when I was looking for this.

If someone needs the actual last day as an int instead using JodaTime you can do this:

public static final int JANUARY = 1;

public static final int DECEMBER = 12;

public static final int FIRST_OF_THE_MONTH = 1;

public final int getLastDayOfMonth(final int month, final int year) {
    int lastDay = 0;

    if ((month >= JANUARY) && (month <= DECEMBER)) {
        LocalDate aDate = new LocalDate(year, month, FIRST_OF_THE_MONTH);

        lastDay = aDate.dayOfMonth().getMaximumValue();
    }

    return lastDay;
}

Answer 3

Using JodaTime,we can do this :

    public static final Integer CURRENT_YEAR = DateTime.now().getYear();

    public static final Integer CURRENT_MONTH = DateTime.now().getMonthOfYear();

    public static final Integer LAST_DAY_OF_CURRENT_MONTH = DateTime.now()
            .dayOfMonth().getMaximumValue();

    public static final Integer LAST_HOUR_OF_CURRENT_DAY = DateTime.now()
            .hourOfDay().getMaximumValue();

    public static final Integer LAST_MINUTE_OF_CURRENT_HOUR = DateTime.now().minuteOfHour().getMaximumValue();

    public static final Integer LAST_SECOND_OF_CURRENT_MINUTE = DateTime.now().secondOfMinute().getMaximumValue();


    public static DateTime getLastDateOfMonth() {
        return new DateTime(CURRENT_YEAR, CURRENT_MONTH,
                LAST_DAY_OF_CURRENT_MONTH, LAST_HOUR_OF_CURRENT_DAY,
                LAST_MINUTE_OF_CURRENT_HOUR, LAST_SECOND_OF_CURRENT_MINUTE);
    }

As describe here in my small gist on github : A JodaTime and java.util.Date Util Class with a lot of usefull functions.

Answer 4

Another simple method is this:

//Set the Date in First of the next Month:
answer = new DateTime(year,month+1,1,0,0,0);
//Now take away one day and now you have the last day in the month correctly
answer = answer.minusDays(1);