Problem regarding Date class

[Chintan Shah]

Hi..guys,
I am developing one website..and i am using Date class in JSP.
The date class returns 1 for Monday, 2 for Tuesday.
Now what i want is that i need to reconvert 1 to Monday, 2 to Tuesday because..i need to compare all of them..and then show appropriately Monday, Tuesday on customers page. Please let me know..how to compare..and how to show week days.
any help is appreciated . thanx in advance.
Chintan shah

[ak pillai]

java.util.Date.getDay() is a deprecated method. You should use the java.util.Calendar.

check this API out:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#SUNDAY

Calendar todayCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
       int dayOfWeek = todayCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
         
       if (dayOfWeek == Calendar.MONDAY) {
           return "whatever";
       } else if (dayOfWeek == Calendar.TUESDAY) {
           return "";
       } else if (dayOfWeek == Calendar.WEDNESDAY) {
           return "whatever";
       } else if (dayOfWeek == Calendar.THURSDAY) {
           return "whatever";
       } else if (dayOfWeek == Calendar.TUESDAY) {
           return "whatever";
       } else if (dayOfWeek == Calendar.WEDNESDAY) {
           return "whatever";
       } else {
           return "whatever";
       }

[Bear Bibeault]

Not much to do with JSP, so this has been moved to Java in General (beginner).

[Alana Sparx]

Is there a solution involving

String myFormat = "creat your own format here";//get this from SimpleDateFormat javadoc
DateFormat someDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(myFormat);
someDateFormat.format(yourTime);

Sorry, last (first?) probable post today - close of day in my timezone zzzzz.....