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Find the last day of a month

Java: Use YearMonth so leap years and month lengths are handled by the calendar library.

Find the next chosen weekday

Java: TemporalAdjusters.next excludes the starting day even if it already has that weekday.

Find the number of days in a month

Python: Use calendar.monthrange to account for leap years.

Generate a half-open range of dates

Java: datesUntil includes the starting date and excludes the end date.

Measure a duration between instants

Java: Use Duration for elapsed timeline time and retrieve total seconds.

Parse a date with an explicit input pattern

Java: Use DateTimeFormatter for a non-ISO date representation.

Parse an ISO calendar date

Python: Use date.fromisoformat and inspect the calendar components.

Read an ISO week number

Python: Use isocalendar because ISO week years can differ from calendar years near January.

Read an ISO week year and week number

Java: Use ISO week fields together because a week can belong to the previous calendar year.

Skip weekends when advancing dates

Python: Walk calendar dates and count only Monday through Friday.