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can someone please help me understand this question.

 
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Write a program to find the date of the monday which comes after the third friday of the nearest month.
Input : yyyy,mm,dd,Day
Output : yyyy,mm,dd,Monday

Im really sorry about missing the below line initially.
suppose the input is 29/1/2014
the output should be 24/2/2014


I also don't know how to start ...please help
 
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Start with the Java Tutorials section about Dates.
 
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As for understanding the question, I would start by asking the questioner what they mean by "the nearest month". Finding the third Friday of a month is doable, but you first need to know what month you're working with.
 
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You could use JODA TIME
 
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