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Thread: Calendar Issue

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    Default Calendar Issue

    Ok, I have a problem where: given two dates and a frequency, a list of dates are returned in that range based on that frequency.

    The dates are formatted mm/dd/yyyy where leading zeros are not included.
    The frequency is formatted in one of 3 ways:
    1) Daily - Occurs every day of week
    2) X... - Occurs every day of week except the dates after the X
    3) ... - Occurs only on the days indicated
    The days in the frequency are determined by a number, ranging 1 to 7 where 1 is Monday and 7 is Sunday. So, the frequency X6 would say: "Every day except Saturday" and the frequency 126 would say: "Only on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday".

    Now, to accomplish this task, I have a method that returns a List<Date>. Inside that method, I have a boolean array of 7 where each index is a day of the week (where Monday is index 0). I then set the booleans true/false based on the frequencies. After that, I compute each day in the range and check its Day Of Week to see if it is in the frequency. If it is, I add it to my List<Date>, if not, I exclude it. Here is my code for that method:
        public List<Date> getDates(String star,String end,String frequency)
        {
        	//Where frequencies[0] == Monday
        	boolean[] frequencies = new boolean[7];
     
        	if(frequency.equalsIgnoreCase("Daily"))
        	{
        		for(int i=0;i<frequencies.length;i++)
        		{
        			frequencies[i]=true;
        		}
        	}
        	else if(frequency.contains("X") || frequency.contains("x"))
        	{
        		for(int i=0;i<frequencies.length;i++)
        		{
        			frequencies[i] = true;
        		}
        		String n = frequency.substring(1);
        		for(int i=0;i<n.length();i++)
        		{
        			int v = Integer.parseInt(n.substring(i,i+1));
        			frequencies[v-1] = false;
        		}
        	}
        	else
        	{
        		for(int i=0;i<frequency.length();i++)
        		{
        			int v = Integer.parseInt(frequency.substring(i,i+1));
        			frequencies[v-1] = true;
        		}
        	}
     
     
        	String[] eSplit = star.split("/");
        	String[] dSplit = end.split("/");
        	Date d1 = new Date(Integer.parseInt(eSplit[2]),Integer.parseInt(eSplit[0])-1,Integer.parseInt(eSplit[1]));
        	Date d2 = new Date(Integer.parseInt(dSplit[2]),Integer.parseInt(dSplit[0])-1,Integer.parseInt(dSplit[1]));
        	List<Date> dates = new ArrayList<Date>();
    		long interval = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
    		long endTime = d2.getTime();
    		long curTime = d1.getTime();
    		while (curTime <= endTime)
    		{
    			Date temp = new Date(curTime);
    			Calendar check = new GregorianCalendar(temp.getYear(), temp.getMonth(), temp.getDate());
    			check.setFirstDayOfWeek(Calendar.MONDAY);
    			int dayOfWeek = check.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
    			if(frequencies[dayOfWeek-1])
    		  		dates.add(new Date(curTime));
    		  	curTime += interval;
    		}
    		return dates;
        }

    The problem I am having is that the dates it returns are incorrect. Specifically, it would seem it is 1 day early and for some it doesn't even find dates. For example, for in restriction of:
    1/4/2011 to 2/16/2011 for 6:
    it returns:
    1/7/2011
    1/14/2011
    1/21/2011
    1/28/2011
    2/4/2011
    2/11/2011
    while it should return:
    1/8/2011
    1/15/2011
    1/22/2011
    1/29/2011
    2/5/2011
    2/12/2011

    Another example is that for the restriction of:
    12/21/2010 to 1/3/2011 for 6:
    it returns:
    12/24/2010
    12/31/2010
    while it should return:
    12/25/2010
    1/1/2011


    Any clues as to what is happening? I need to figure this out fairly quickly.
    Last edited by aussiemcgr; October 11th, 2010 at 12:25 PM. Reason: Fixed portion of code, but still having issues
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    Default Re: Calendar Issue

    I figured it out. Apparently Calendar.setFirstDayOfWeek(Calendar.MONDAY); doesnt exactly set the first day of week to be Monday. It is more complicated than that. Either way, I figured it out.
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