Question

I’ve been racking my brains over this, but it’s late on a Friday and I’m going round in circles.

I need to create a list of working weeks for a drop down list, with the week number as the value. So the code would output:

Monday 22nd August – Friday 26th September
Monday 29th August – Friday 2 September
Monday 5th September – Friday 9 September

etc..

For the whole year. Any ideas how I would achieve this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think the code below complies with ISO 8601:

var jan1 = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year , 1, 1);
//beware different cultures, see other answers
var startOfFirstWeek = jan1.AddDays(1 - (int)(jan1.DayOfWeek));
var weeks=
    Enumerable
        .Range(0,54)
        .Select(i => new {
            weekStart = startOfFirstWeek.AddDays(i * 7)
        })
        .TakeWhile(x => x.weekStart.Year <= jan1.Year)
        .Select(x => new {
            x.weekStart,
            weekFinish=x.weekStart.AddDays(4)
        })
        .SkipWhile(x => x.weekFinish < jan1.AddDays(1) )
        .Select((x,i) => new {
            x.weekStart,
            x.weekFinish,
            weekNum=i+1
        });