[thelist] ASP.NET - Date Logic Question

[Gary McPherson]

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Subject: [thelist] ASP.NET - Date Logic Question

> Need a little help with logic... what's the best way to
> display the date of the most recent Monday?  In other words,
> no matter what day of the week it is, I need to say "Download
> the newsletter for the week of October 4th, 2004"  Until next
> week, when it will change to "Download the newsletter for the week of
> October 11th, 2004" 
> 
> Is there a way to derive what day of the week it is as an
> integer?  Monday = 2, Tuesday=3, etc?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Casey

Use DateTime.DayOfWeek to give you the number of the current day, then it's
easy to derive the date of the previous Monday from that by simple
subtraction, e.g. (C#):

DateTime dtToday = DateTime.Now;
DateTime dtMonday = dtToday.AddDays(1-dtToday.DayOfWeek);

Hope that helps,

Gary