Get first date of current month in java

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user959883 picture user959883 · Jan 9, 2013 · Viewed 119.3k times · Source

I am trying to get to and from date where ToDate will have previous date and FromDate will have first date of the current month. For January it would be 1/1/2013 and so on. How to get the first date of the current month correctly? I am not able to do it.

today.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, -1);
java.util.Date previousDay=today.getTime();
ToDate = sdfFile1.format(newjava.sql.Date(previousDay.getTime()));
today.add(Calendar.DATE, 1);
java.util.Date nextDay=today.getTime();
FromDate = sdfFile1.format(new java.sql.Date(nextDay.getTime()));

Answer

Evgeniy Dorofeev picture Evgeniy Dorofeev · Jan 9, 2013

try 

    Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();   // this takes current date
    c.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
    System.out.println(c.getTime());       // this returns java.util.Date

Updated (Since Java 8):

import java.time.LocalDate;
LocalDate todaydate = LocalDate.now();
System.out.println("Months first date in yyyy-mm-dd: " +todaydate.withDayOfMonth(1));

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