I am a 3 month old java student. For one of my module I tried to make first day of week as tuesday(so that a real friday should now be at index 3) but it didn't show expected result.
I am inputting day through scanner.
Below is the concerned piece of code and output:
Calendar c= Calendar.getInstance();
c.setFirstDayOfWeek(Calendar.TUESDAY);
c.setTime(date);
int dayOfWeek=c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
System.out.println(dayOfWeek);
Output:
Enter the date(dd/mm/yyyy):
03/07/2014
6
Don't know where I am wrong. Tried a lot googling around and even set minimalDAysOfFirstWeek but nothing working out. What i want is 03/07/2014 to be shown as index 3. How to achieve so?
I think you've misunderstood the purpose of setFirstDayOfWeek.
That doesn't change c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) works at all - it changes the result of calling c.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH) and c.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR), as per the documentation:
When setting or getting the WEEK_OF_MONTH or WEEK_OF_YEAR fields, Calendar must determine the first week of the month or year as a reference point. The first week of a month or year is defined as the earliest seven day period beginning on getFirstDayOfWeek() and containing at least getMinimalDaysInFirstWeek() days of that month or year.
In other words, Sunday is always Sunday... but whether Sunday June 10th is in the same week as Monday June 11th or not depends on what is considered to be the first day of the week.
switch (c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)) {
case Calendar.TUESDAY:
return 0;
case Calendar.WEDNESDAY:
return 1;
// And so on...
default:
break;
}
Related
I only found a solution for Joda Time.
My solution works only if the last day is not in the first week:
LocalDate.now() // or any other LocalDate
.withDayOfMonth(31)
.withMonth(12)
.get(weekFields.weekOfWeekBasedYear())
So what is the correct way in Java Time (like in Joda Time)?
This information is available directly using the java.time.* API.
The key method is rangeRefinedBy(Temporal) on TemporalField. It allows you to obtain a ValueRange object that provides the minimum and maximum values for the field, refined by the temporal object passed in.
To find out how many ISO weeks there are in the year, do the following:
LocalDate date = LocalDate.of(2015, 6, 1);
long weeksInYear = IsoFields.WEEK_OF_WEEK_BASED_YEAR.rangeRefinedBy(date).getMaximum();
System.out.println(weeksInYear);
Note that the date you pass in is used to determine the answer. So when passing in dates in early January or late December ensure you understand how the ISO week-based calendar works, and the difference between the calendar year and the week-based year.
If one wants to get the week number based on 7 days no matter when the week starts and how many days the first partial week of the year has, ChronoField.ALIGNED_WEEK_OF_YEAR might be helpful.
For example, the 1st of January 2016 based on the ISO-8601 definition (where a week starts on Monday and the first week has a minimum of 4 days) falls into week number 0, but in the aligned it is week number 1.
LocalDate date = LocalDate.of(2016, 1, 1);
int iso8601 = date.get(WeekFields.ISO.weekOfYear()); // result is 0
int aligned = date.get(ChronoField.ALIGNED_WEEK_OF_YEAR); // result is 1
It seems that when the last day is in the first week, you don't want to get 1 as an answer but 52/3/4, in which case you may be looking for:
LocalDate.of(2017, 12, 31).get(WeekFields.ISO.weekOfYear());
There are several ways to define week numbers - if that doesn't do what you want you need to clarify which method you want to use.
The correct and best solution is given by #JodaStephen. Here are some alternatives anyways.
December, 28th is always in the last week of a year, because the remaining three days after can not form a major part of another week:
int weeks = LocalDate.of(2017, 12, 28).get(WeekFields.ISO.weekOfYear());
A year has 53 weeks if it starts or ends with a thursday:
Year year = Year.of(2017);
DayOfWeek firstDay = year.atDay(1).getDayOfWeek();
DayOfWeek lastDay = year.atDay(year.length()).getDayOfWeek();
int weeks = firstDay == DayOfWeek.THURSDAY || lastDay == DayOfWeek.THURSDAY ? 53 : 52;
And finally this will give you the "week number" of the last day of year. It's 53 also in cases where the last week's number is 52 iff the major part of the last day's week lies in the next year (the week is claimed by the next year).
// This will not give the correct number of weeks for a given year
Year year = Year.of(2018);
year.atDay(year.length()).get(WeekFields.ISO.weekOfYear()); // 53
That's what you actually did.
I only found a solution for Joda Time.
My solution works only if the last day is not in the first week:
LocalDate.now() // or any other LocalDate
.withDayOfMonth(31)
.withMonth(12)
.get(weekFields.weekOfWeekBasedYear())
So what is the correct way in Java Time (like in Joda Time)?
This information is available directly using the java.time.* API.
The key method is rangeRefinedBy(Temporal) on TemporalField. It allows you to obtain a ValueRange object that provides the minimum and maximum values for the field, refined by the temporal object passed in.
To find out how many ISO weeks there are in the year, do the following:
LocalDate date = LocalDate.of(2015, 6, 1);
long weeksInYear = IsoFields.WEEK_OF_WEEK_BASED_YEAR.rangeRefinedBy(date).getMaximum();
System.out.println(weeksInYear);
Note that the date you pass in is used to determine the answer. So when passing in dates in early January or late December ensure you understand how the ISO week-based calendar works, and the difference between the calendar year and the week-based year.
If one wants to get the week number based on 7 days no matter when the week starts and how many days the first partial week of the year has, ChronoField.ALIGNED_WEEK_OF_YEAR might be helpful.
For example, the 1st of January 2016 based on the ISO-8601 definition (where a week starts on Monday and the first week has a minimum of 4 days) falls into week number 0, but in the aligned it is week number 1.
LocalDate date = LocalDate.of(2016, 1, 1);
int iso8601 = date.get(WeekFields.ISO.weekOfYear()); // result is 0
int aligned = date.get(ChronoField.ALIGNED_WEEK_OF_YEAR); // result is 1
It seems that when the last day is in the first week, you don't want to get 1 as an answer but 52/3/4, in which case you may be looking for:
LocalDate.of(2017, 12, 31).get(WeekFields.ISO.weekOfYear());
There are several ways to define week numbers - if that doesn't do what you want you need to clarify which method you want to use.
The correct and best solution is given by #JodaStephen. Here are some alternatives anyways.
December, 28th is always in the last week of a year, because the remaining three days after can not form a major part of another week:
int weeks = LocalDate.of(2017, 12, 28).get(WeekFields.ISO.weekOfYear());
A year has 53 weeks if it starts or ends with a thursday:
Year year = Year.of(2017);
DayOfWeek firstDay = year.atDay(1).getDayOfWeek();
DayOfWeek lastDay = year.atDay(year.length()).getDayOfWeek();
int weeks = firstDay == DayOfWeek.THURSDAY || lastDay == DayOfWeek.THURSDAY ? 53 : 52;
And finally this will give you the "week number" of the last day of year. It's 53 also in cases where the last week's number is 52 iff the major part of the last day's week lies in the next year (the week is claimed by the next year).
// This will not give the correct number of weeks for a given year
Year year = Year.of(2018);
year.atDay(year.length()).get(WeekFields.ISO.weekOfYear()); // 53
That's what you actually did.
So, i found the java.util.Calendar, and tried to use it for a android project i'm working on.
I do not understand at all how Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK can return 7, when it's Thursday?
And now when it's August Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR returns 4, which doesn't make any sense at all!
I have tried GregorianCalendar too, and it gives exactly the same results.
Tried to find any documentation about how they count, but i can't find anything.
Seems like there is something very obvious, but which i just cannot find out what it is!
The code i wrote is here:
// Get if daily or weekly
boolean daily;
daily = getPrefs.getBoolean("checkbox_daily", false);
String day = "0";
if (daily){
switch(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_WEEK){
case GregorianCalendar.MONDAY:
Do_stuff();
break;
case GregorianCalendar.TUESDAY:
Do_stuff();
break;
case GregorianCalendar.WEDNESDAY:
Do_stuff();
break;
case GregorianCalendar.THURSDAY:
Do_stuff();
break;
case GregorianCalendar.FRIDAY:
Do_stuff();
break;
}
}
GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_WEEK is constant,
you need calendarInstance.get(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
From java.util.Calendar docs:
Calendar defines a locale-specific seven day week using two
parameters: the first day of the week and the minimal days in first
week (from 1 to 7). These numbers are taken from the locale resource
data when a Calendar is constructed. They may also be specified
explicitly through the methods for setting their values.
When setting or getting the WEEK_OF_MONTH or WEEK_OF_YEAR fields,
Calendar must determine the first week of the month or year as a
reference point. The first week of a month or year is defined as the
earliest seven day period beginning on getFirstDayOfWeek() and
containing at least getMinimalDaysInFirstWeek() days of that month or
year. Weeks numbered ..., -1, 0 precede the first week; weeks numbered
2, 3,... follow it. Note that the normalized numbering returned by
get() may be different. For example, a specific Calendar subclass may
designate the week before week 1 of a year as week n of the previous
year.
I'd like to have a function which returns the next week and year given a week and year. It looks something like:
public static int[] getNextWeek(int year, int week) {
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(); // I'm Locale.US and TimeZone "America/New_York"
c.clear();
c.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
c.set(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR, week);
c.add(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR, 1);
return new int[] {c.get(Calendar.YEAR), c.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR)}
}
This sometimes does not work around year boundaries. It seems to depend on what day you invoke it and for what parameters you use! For example, if I invoke it with year 2012 and week 52 then I expect the result to be year 2013 and week 1. If you invoke it today (Tuesday July 17 2012) it works. If you set the day of week to yesterday it does not; and oddly results in year 2012 week 1. Weird. What is going on? It appears to relate to the day of the week because it doesn't work if invoked with SUNDAY or MONDAY, which are the last two days of 2012! If I set the day of the week to the last day of the week the function seems to work; before calling Calendar.add() I do:
// Must set to last day of week; initially set to first day due to API
c.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, c.getFirstDayOfWeek()); // SUNDAY
c.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 6); // Must roll forward not backwards
There doesn't seem to be any weirdness like this if I create a getPreviousWeek method. Is this a java.util.Calendar bug? Next time I guess I'll use Joda time!
Have you considered the fact that ISO8601 week algorithm considers the first week of the year to be the one that has at least 4 days fall within that year?
So if the Jan 1 is on thurdsay, that week is actually considered week 52 of the previous year, not week one of the current year.
You might want to at least consider joda-time for this kind of calculation, as it has proper handling of the ISO standard.
LocalDate ld = new LocalDate();
ld = ld.withWeekOfWeekyear(29);
ld = ld.withWeekyear(2012);
System.out.println(ld.getWeekOfWeekyear());
System.out.println(ld.getWeekyear());
// 29
// 2012
System.out.println(ld.plusWeeks(1).getWeekOfWeekyear());
System.out.println(ld.plusWeeks(1).getWeekyear());
// 30
// 2012
And this will work across year boundaries.
Just do an explicit check to see if there's a rollover.
return new int[] {c.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR) == 1 ? c.get(Calendar.YEAR) + 1 :
c.get(Calendar.YEAR), c.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR)};
As far as I can tell, the reason why WEEK_OF_YEAR doesn't add correctly is because it's not an actual property of Calendar like SECOND, MINUTE, MONTH, DAY, or YEAR. It's a derived property like WEEK_OF_MONTH. One way to get around this is to use c.add(Calendar.DAY, 7) to add exactly 7 days instead of incrementing WEEK_OF_YEAR.
At this point I'm going to assume this really is a bug. I've filled a bug report with Oracle here:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7197761
I'm newish to Java and am trying to do somethings with dates. First I started using the Date class, which I found out was mostly deprecated so I switched over to Calendar.
Now I am getting weird values. for example the Month value for December is 0, not 12. And on those Calendars where it is giving me 0 for December it is also moving the year ahead one year.
It's weird!
What am I missing?
Thanks for your help.
-GG
EDIT FOR AN EXAMPLE:
So I am reading some line sin from a file such as this:
Johnny Graham H F 12-2-1973 Black
I parse it, and then for the Calendar I set:
int year = Integer.parseInt(stringVersionOfYear); // this value is 1973
Then later when I go to get the year back with a line like this:
calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR)
the value is 1974... And the month is 0 for
cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)
EDIT 2:
I am creating the Calendar like this:
Calendar outputCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
outputCalendar.set(year, month, day);
The java.util.Date and Calendar classes are poorly designed (eg, the first day in a month is day 1 but the first month in a year is month 0). Many projects use the Joda Time package instead.
Months values are 0 thru 11; set a month to 12 and the date gets "normalized", incrementing the year by one and setting the month to 0. This makes it easy to "add a month" without having to worry about handling the overflow at year end.
EDIT: January=0, February=1,... December=11. When you set the month value to 12 you were asking for the 13th month, which got normalized to the first month of the following year.
Note that this normalization process happens in general -- Try to set the date to December 32nd and you'll get back January 1 of the following year. This means it's important to be careful when modifying individual fields of a Calendar object. If you create a default Calendar on, say, January 31st and then want to modify it to contain, say February 5th, the order in which you set the fields is important. If you change the month first you'll be creating February 31st, which will get normalized to March 2nd or 3rd (depending on the leap year) and then when you set the day to 5 the result is March 5th, not February 5th. You have the opposite problem in other cases, such as starting from any date in February and modifying to the 30th or 31st of any other month. In that case doing the month first results in the same type of problem.
The only safe way to modify a date is to use a method that sets all three values simultaneously, such as the set(int,int,int) method.
See this line?
outputCalendar.set(year, month, day);
Just change it like this:
outputCalendar.set(year, month - 1, day);
and then when you want to get the month, don't use this:
cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)
instead, use this:
(1+(cal.get(Calendar.MONTH)))
It's a pain, but it will fix the problem (I think).
The main piece of advice I have for you is: read the API! Calendar is indeed not the pinnacle of intuitive API design, but it is definitely usable if you take the time to read the javadoc. Learn the difference between .add and .roll. Check out what happens when you set a year (1973) into a Calendar initialized with the current date (default Calendar.getInstance).
Whining about API is all fine (we all do it), but in the end to find solutions start off by reading what the authors provided to you before asking relatively obtuse questions on the Internet.