I want find all Saturdays and Sundays in A given month. How can I do so?
The simplest way is to just iterate over all the days in the month, and check the day of week for each of them. For example:
// This takes a 1-based month, e.g. January=1. If you want to use a 0-based
// month, remove the "- 1" later on.
public int countWeekendDays(int year, int month) {
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
// Note that month is 0-based in calendar, bizarrely.
calendar.set(year, month - 1, 1);
int daysInMonth = calendar.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int count = 0;
for (int day = 1; day <= daysInMonth; day++) {
calendar.set(year, month - 1, day);
int dayOfWeek = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
if (dayOfWeek == Calendar.SUNDAY || dayOfweek == Calendar.SATURDAY) {
count++;
// Or do whatever you need to with the result.
}
}
return count;
}
I'm absolutely sure there are far more efficient ways of doing this - but that's what I'd start with, and optimize when I'd found it's too slow.
Note that if you're able to use Joda Time that would make your life a lot easier...