calculate business days including holidays

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i need to calculate the business days between two dates. ex : we have holiday(in USA) on july4th. so if my dates are date1 = 07/03/2012 date2 = 07/06/2012 no of business days b/w these dates should be 1 since july4th is holiday. i have a below method to calclulate the business days which will only counts week ends but not holidays. is there any way to calculate holidays also....please help me on this. ``` public static int getWorkingDaysBetweenTwoDates(Date startDate, Date endDate) { Calendar startCal; Calendar endCal; startCal = Calendar.getInstance(); startCal.setTime(startDate); endCal = Calendar.getInstance(); endCal.setTime(endDate); int workDays = 0; //Return 0 if start and end are the same if (startCal.getTimeInMillis() == endCal.getTimeInMillis()) { return 0; } if (startCal.getTimeInMillis() > endCal.getTimeInMillis()) { startCal.setTime(endDate); endCal.setTime(startDate); } do { startCal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1); if (startCal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) != Calendar.SATURD…

Accepted Answer

Let's pretend you have a list containing all the holidays, as you mentioned.

```
ArrayList<Integer> holidays = ...
```

Just add a condition to your `if` condition in your `do-while`:

```
do {
          startCal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
          if (startCal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) != Calendar.SATURDAY
          && startCal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) != Calendar.SUNDAY
          && !holidays.contains((Integer) startCal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR))) {
              ++workDays;
          }
} while (startCal.getTimeInMillis() < endCal.getTimeInMillis());
```

For simplicity's sake, I've assumed `holiday` contains dates in the format identical to `Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR`.

calculate business days including holidays

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