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Find Next Saturday Date from a known Date Value using C#

Hello Experts,

Does anyone know how to find the next Saturday date from a known date?

In other words, Say you have a date variable with a value of 10/1/2008
Is there a way to autimatically change the variable to the next Saturday date (10/4/2008 in this case)??

Thanks!

p_davis

you could make a method that takes a date and adds a day to it while the dates.dayofweek property isn't saturday.

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p_davis

id just did this without an editor so it will need to be tested -- but the general idea should get you what you need.

Mike Tomlinson

Instead of looping, just use the DayOfWeek property directly to compute how many days to add:

DateTime GetNextSaturday(DateTime time)
{
return time.AddDays(DayOfWeek.Saturday - time.DayOfWeek);
}

Here is a generic helper function to get the next day of week that you specify:

private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
System.DateTime Saturday = GetNextDay(System.DateTime.Today, DayOfWeek.Saturday);
MessageBox.Show(Saturday.ToString("dddd") + ", " + Saturday.ToString("MMMM dd, yyyy"));
}

private System.DateTime GetNextDay(System.DateTime dt, DayOfWeek day)
{
return dt.AddDays(day - dt.DayOfWeek);
}

John Porter

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Thank you very much sir!

I modified your code a bit in case it was a Saturday sent in, I don't want the dat to increment
{
//initialize startTime
DateTime startTime = time.AddDays(0); // (0) instead of (1)
while (startTime.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Saturday)
{

startTime = startTime.AddDays(1);
}
return startTime;
}