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

*/