Datetime - Get next tuesday

Question

As I've mentioned in the comments, there are various things you could mean by "next Tuesday", but this code gives you "the next Tuesday to occur, or today if it's already Tuesday":

DateTime today = DateTime.Today;
// The (... + 7) % 7 ensures we end up with a value in the range [0, 6]
int daysUntilTuesday = ((int) DayOfWeek.Tuesday - (int) today.DayOfWeek + 7) % 7;
DateTime nextTuesday = today.AddDays(daysUntilTuesday);

If you want to give "a week's time" if it's already Tuesday, you can use:

// This finds the next Monday (or today if it's Monday) and then adds a day... so the
// result is in the range [1-7]
int daysUntilTuesday = (((int) DayOfWeek.Monday - (int) today.DayOfWeek + 7) % 7) + 1;

... or you could use the original formula, but from tomorrow:

DateTime tomorrow = DateTime.Today.AddDays(1);
// The (... + 7) % 7 ensures we end up with a value in the range [0, 6]
int daysUntilTuesday = ((int) DayOfWeek.Tuesday - (int) tomorrow.DayOfWeek + 7) % 7;
DateTime nextTuesday = tomorrow.AddDays(daysUntilTuesday);

EDIT: Just to make this nice and versatile:

public static DateTime GetNextWeekday(DateTime start, DayOfWeek day)
{
    // The (... + 7) % 7 ensures we end up with a value in the range [0, 6]
    int daysToAdd = ((int) day - (int) start.DayOfWeek + 7) % 7;
    return start.AddDays(daysToAdd);
}

So to get the value for "today or in the next 6 days":

DateTime nextTuesday = GetNextWeekday(DateTime.Today, DayOfWeek.Tuesday);

To get the value for "the next Tuesday excluding today":

DateTime nextTuesday = GetNextWeekday(DateTime.Today.AddDays(1), DayOfWeek.Tuesday);

This should do the trick:

static DateTime GetNextWeekday(DayOfWeek day)
{
    DateTime result = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);
    while( result.DayOfWeek != day )
        result = result.AddDays(1);
    return result;
}

There are less verbose and more clever/elegant solutions to this problem, but the following C# function works really well for a number of situations.

/// <summary>
/// Find the closest weekday to the given date
/// </summary>
/// <param name="includeStartDate">if the supplied date is on the specified day of the week, return that date or continue to the next date</param>
/// <param name="searchForward">search forward or backward from the supplied date. if a null parameter is given, the closest weekday (ie in either direction) is returned</param>
public static DateTime ClosestWeekDay(this DateTime date, DayOfWeek weekday, bool includeStartDate = true, bool? searchForward=true)
{
    if (!searchForward.HasValue && !includeStartDate) 
    {
        throw new ArgumentException("if searching in both directions, start date must be a valid result");
    }
    var day = date.DayOfWeek;
    int add = ((int)weekday - (int)day);
    if (searchForward.HasValue)
    {
        if (add < 0 && searchForward.Value)
        {
            add += 7;
        }
        else if (add > 0 && !searchForward.Value)
        {
            add -= 7;
        }
        else if (add == 0 && !includeStartDate)
        {
            add = searchForward.Value ? 7 : -7;
        }
    }
    else if (add < -3) 
    {
        add += 7; 
    }
    else if (add > 3)
    {
        add -= 7;
    }
    return date.AddDays(add);
}

@Jon Skeet good answer.

For previous Day:

private DateTime GetPrevWeekday(DateTime start, DayOfWeek day) {
    // The (... - 7) % 7 ensures we end up with a value in the range [0, 6]
    int daysToRemove = ((int) day - (int) start.DayOfWeek - 7) % 7;
    return start.AddDays(daysToRemove);
}

Thanks!!

DateTime nextTuesday = DateTime.Today.AddDays(((int)DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek - (int)DayOfWeek.Tuesday) + 7);