DateTimeExtensionsOrdinalDate(OrdinalWeekday, DayOfWeek, Int32, Int32, Int32) Method

Returns the date of the nth occurrence of a particular weekday in a given month.

Definition

Namespace: InnerDrive.Core
Assembly: InnerDrive.Core (in InnerDrive.Core.dll) Version: 5.2.9417.0

C#

public static DateTime OrdinalDate(
	OrdinalWeekday occurrence,
	DayOfWeek dayOfWeek,
	int year,
	int month,
	int day
)

Parameters

occurrence OrdinalWeekday: The number of the occurrence.
dayOfWeek DayOfWeek: The day of week to use.
year Int32: The calendar year to use.
month Int32: The month to use, where 1 = January and 12 = December.
day Int32: The day of the month to use as the lower limit of the result. (See remarks.)

Return Value

DateTime
A DateTime structure representing the date sought.

Remarks

The day parameter is the lower limit of the day of the month to use. In other words, you can find the first occurrence of a weekday after a particular day using this overload by supplying the following day for the day parameter.

If the value of day is greater than the last occurrence of dayOfWeek, the last occurrence is returned.

The following table shows the output of the OrdinalDate method:

occurrence	dayOfWeek	year	month	day	Result
First	Monday	2014	10	1	2014-10-06
First	Tuesday	2014	11	1	2014-11-04
First	Tuesday	2005	11	2	2005-11-08
Fourth	Tuesday	2005	11	30	2005-11-29
Exact	Tuesday	2004	11	3	2006-11-03

Example

C#

var electionDay = 
DateTimeExtensions.OrdinalDate(OrdinalWeekday.Second, DayOfWeek.Tuesday, 2014, 11, 1);

// Result: 2014-11-04