Is it possible to get the previous day of the week using Joda-Time?

Question

I am new to Joda-Time and was looking at getting the previous working/week day. My initial try was done on a Monday and I wanted to get the date for T -1 which will be Friday:

DateTimeZone zone = DateTimeZone.forID("Europe/London");
Chronology coptic = GJChronology.getInstance(zone);

DateTime dt = new DateTime(coptic);
DateTime minusOneDay = dt.minusDays(1);

System.out.println(minusOneDay );

But as I expected returns the date on Sunday. Does anyone know how to get the previous week day? Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

If the day is Monday or Sunday, then you need to subtract three or two days respectively. In all other cases subtract one day. This assumes a working week from Monday to Friday (which doesn't apply to all cultures).

Answer 2

This doesn't look to be handled by Joda time.

There is a sourceforge project that looks to handle it though.

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