How to get name of the first day of a month?

Question

How would I go about getting the first day of the month? So for January, of this year, it would return Sunday. And then for February it would return Wednesday.

Answer 1

To get the first date of the current month, use java.util.Calendar. First get an instance of it and set the field Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH to the first date of the month. Since the first day of any month is 1, inplace of cal.getActualMinimum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH), 1 can be used here.

private Date getFirstDateOfCurrentMonth() {   Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();   cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, cal.getActualMinimum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));   return cal.getTime(); } 

Answer 2

You can create a Calendar with whatever date you want and then do set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1) to get the first day of a month.

     Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();      cal.set(Calendar.DATE, 25);      cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.JANUARY);      cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2012);       cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);      Date firstDayOfMonth = cal.getTime();         DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEEEEEE");         System.out.println("First Day of Month: " + sdf.format(firstDayOfMonth));