Get Day of Week in your name in Java

Description

The following code shows how to get Day of Week in your name.

Example


// w  w  w  .j  a  va  2 s .c om
import java.util.Calendar;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
    System.out.println("Current date : " + (now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1) + "-"
        + now.get(Calendar.DATE) + "-" + now.get(Calendar.YEAR));

    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]);
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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