Display Day of Week using Java Calendar


/*
  Display Day of Week using Java Calendar
  This example shows how to display day of week like Monday, Tuesday etc.  
  using Java Calendar class.
*/
 
import java.util.Calendar;
 
public class DisplayDayOfWeek {
 
  public static void main(String[] args) {
 
    //create Calendar instance
    Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
    
    System.out.println("Current date : " + (now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1)
                        + "-"
                        + now.get(Calendar.DATE)
                        + "-"
                        + now.get(Calendar.YEAR));
    
    //create an array of days
    String[] strDays = new String[]{
                      "Sunday",
                      "Monday", 
                      "Tuesday",
                      "Wednesday",
                      "Thusday",
                      "Friday",
                      "Saturday"
                    };
    
    //Day_OF_WEEK starts from 1 while array index starts from 0      
    System.out.println("Current day is : " + 
              strDays[now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) - 1]
              );
    
  
  }
  
}
 
/*
Typical output would be
Current date : 12-25-2007
Current day is : Tuesday
*/

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