C# - What is the best way to get a list of the weeks in a month, given a starting weekday?

Question

I need to get a list of weeks for a given month, with Monday as the start day.

So for example, for the month of February 2009, this method would return:

2/2/2009
2/9/2009
2/16/2009
2/23/2009

Answer 1

Just change the response line to what ever you need to do with it

protected void PrintDay(int year, int month, DayOfWeek dayName)
{
  CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("en-US");
  for (int i = 1 ; i <= ci.Calendar.GetDaysInMonth (year, month); i++)
  {
    if (new DateTime (year, month, i).DayOfWeek == dayName)
      Response.Write (i.ToString() + "<br/>");
  }
}

Quick solution: i don't think there is a built in function for it....

Answer 2

public static List<DateTime> GetWeeks(
    this DateTime month, DayOfWeek startOfWeek)
{
    var firstOfMonth = new DateTime(month.Year, month.Month, 1);
    var daysToAdd = ((Int32)startOfWeek - (Int32)month.DayOfWeek) % 7;
    var firstStartOfWeek = firstOfMonth.AddDays(daysToAdd);

    var current = firstStartOfWeek;
    var weeks = new List<DateTime>();
    while (current.Month == month.Month)
    {
        weeks.Add(current);
        current = current.AddDays(7);
    }

    return weeks;
}

Answer 3

Something like the following pseudo-code should work:

• Determine the start date of the month (use month and year from a date and set the day to 1
• Determine the end date of the month (start date + 1 month)
• Determine the first date that is a monday (this is your first item in the list)
• Add 7 days to find the next date and repeat until you read or pass the month end

Answer 4

int year = 2009;
int month = 2;
DateTime startDate = new DateTime(year, month, 1);
DateTime endDate = startDate.AddMonths(1);
while (startDate.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Monday)
    startDate = startDate.AddDays(1);
for (DateTime result = startDate; result < endDate; result = result.AddDays(7))
    DoWhatYouWant(result);

Answer 5

How about this?

  public IEnumerable<DateTime> GetWeeks(DateTime date, DayOfWeek startDay)
  {
     var list = new List<DateTime>();
     DateTime first = new DateTime(date.Year, date.Month, 1);

     for (var i = first; i < first.AddMonths(1); i = i.AddDays(1))
     {
        if (i.DayOfWeek == startDay)
           list.Add(i);
     }

     return list;
  }

Answer 6

Here's a solution (effectively one line) using C# 3.0/LINQ, in case you're interested:

var month = new DateTime(2009, 2, 1);
var weeks = Enumerable.Range(0, 4).Select(n => month.AddDays(n * 7 - (int)month.DayOfWeek + 1)).TakeWhile(monday => monday.Month == month.Month);

Answer 7

Hi.

I see you got your answer, but I wanted to share with you a helper class I created for one of my projects. It's far to be a comprehansive class, but might help...

public static class WeekHelper {

#region Public Methods
public static DateTime GetWeekStart(DateTime date) {
    DateTime weekStart;
    int monday = 1;
    int crtDay = (int)date.DayOfWeek;
    if (date.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
        crtDay = 7;
    int difference = crtDay - monday;
    weekStart = date.AddDays(-difference);
    return weekStart;
}
public static DateTime GetWeekStop(DateTime date) {
    DateTime weekStart;
    int sunday = 7;
    int crtDay = (int)date.DayOfWeek;
    if (date.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
        crtDay = 7;
    int difference = sunday - crtDay;
    weekStart = date.AddDays(difference);
    return weekStart;
}
public static void GetWeekInterval(int year, int weekNo,
    out DateTime weekStart, out DateTime weekStop) {
    GetFirstWeekOfYear(year, out weekStart, out weekStop);
    if (weekNo == 1)
        return;
    weekNo--;
    int daysToAdd = weekNo * 7;
    DateTime dt = weekStart.AddDays(daysToAdd);
    GetWeekInterval(dt, out weekStart, out weekStop);
}
public static List<KeyValuePair<DateTime, DateTime>> GetWeekSeries(DateTime toDate) {
    //gets week series from beginning of the year
    DateTime dtStartYear = new DateTime(toDate.Year, 1, 1);
    List<KeyValuePair<DateTime, DateTime>> list = GetWeekSeries(dtStartYear, toDate);
    if (list.Count > 0) {
        KeyValuePair<DateTime, DateTime> week = list[0];
        list[0] = new KeyValuePair<DateTime, DateTime>(dtStartYear, week.Value);
    }
    return list;
}
public static List<KeyValuePair<DateTime, DateTime>> GetWeekSeries(DateTime fromDate, DateTime toDate) {
    if (fromDate > toDate)
        return null;
    List<KeyValuePair<DateTime, DateTime>> list = new List<KeyValuePair<DateTime, DateTime>>(100);
    DateTime weekStart, weekStop;
    toDate = GetWeekStop(toDate);
    while (fromDate <= toDate) {
        GetWeekInterval(fromDate, out weekStart, out weekStop);
        list.Add(new KeyValuePair<DateTime, DateTime>(weekStart, weekStop));
        fromDate = fromDate.AddDays(7);
    }
    return list;
}
public static void GetFirstWeekOfYear(int year, out DateTime weekStart, out DateTime weekStop) {
    DateTime date = new DateTime(year, 1, 1);
    GetWeekInterval(date, out weekStart, out weekStop);
}
public static void GetWeekInterval(DateTime date,
    out DateTime dtWeekStart, out DateTime dtWeekStop) {
    dtWeekStart = GetWeekStart(date);
    dtWeekStop = GetWeekStop(date);
}
#endregion Public Methods

}

Answer 8

This works beautifully! All you have to do is get the first day of the month you want to get the weeks for and then this will give you the first day of every week. You need to get 5 weeks (not 4) so the Enumerable.Range counts out 5 instead of 4.

var date = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, 1);
var weeks = from n in Enumerable.Range(0, 5)
   select date.AddDays(7 * n + (-1 * (int)date.DayOfWeek));

Answer 9

 // Get the weeks in a month

 DateTime date = DateTime.Today;
 // first generate all dates in the month of 'date'
 var dates = Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(date.Year, date.Month)).Select(n => new DateTime(date.Year, date.Month, n));
 // then filter the only the start of weeks
 var weekends = from d in dates
                where d.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Monday
                select d;