how do we get the first and last day of the current month

Question

How do we get the first day of the month and the last day of the month? I am using it on an apex class.

I can get today's date by using

date.today()

but how would I get the first and last day of the month?

Answer 1

With respect to your question, you get the first date of the month (I'll use today's month in my example) using the following

Date firstDayOfMonth = System.today().toStartOfMonth();

To get the last day of the month, use the following:

Date lastDayOfMonth = firstDayOfMonth.addDays(Date.daysInMonth(firstDayOfMonth.year(), firstDayOfMonth.month()) - 1);