is this not suppose to give me date of the week?

public class TimeAndDateRecord {

//private enum Dayz{SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY};

public TimeAndDateRecord(){
        
    }

public static String getDate(){
        DateFormat dateForm = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
        Date dateD = new Date();
        return dateForm.format(dateD);
    }

public static String getTime(){
        DateFormat dateForm = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
        Date dateD = new Date();
        return dateForm.format(dateD);
    }

public static String getDayOfTheWeek(){
        String today = "";
        DateFormat dateForm = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy"); //date formatter
        Date dateD = new Date(); //date instance
        int year = Integer.parseInt(dateForm.format(dateD));
        dateForm = new SimpleDateFormat("MM");
        int month = Integer.parseInt(dateForm.format(dateD)) + 1;
        dateForm = new SimpleDateFormat("dd");
        int day = Integer.parseInt(dateForm.format(dateD));

Calendar can = Calendar.getInstance();
        can.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-8:00"));
        can.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
        can.set(Calendar.MONTH, month);
        can.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, day);
        int to = can.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
        //System.out.println(to);

switch(to){
            case 1:
                today = "SUNDAY";
                //today = "FRIDAY";
                break;
            case 2:
                today = "MONDAY";
                //today = "SATURDAY";
                break;
            case 3:
                today = "TUESDAY";
                //today = "SUNDAY";
                break;
            case 4:
                today = "WEDNESDAY";
                //today = "MONDAY";
                break;
            case 5:
                today = "THURSDAY";
                //today = "TUESDAY";
                break;
            case 6:
                today = "FRIDAY";
                //today = "WEDNESDAY";
                break;
            case 7:
                today = "SATURDAY";
                //today = "THURSDAY";
                break;
            default:
                today = "INVALID";
                break;
        }
        return today;
    }
}

Please i need correction .. the date this not functioning well in some months, i get Tuesday if today is Monday.
Thanks in addvance
Note: am in Nigeria where our time zone is GMT-8:00hrs

SimpleDateFormat already has a format code for obtaining the textual day of week, so why are you reinventing the wheel? Or is this homework?

This design could be simplified significantly to:

pseudo:
create a Calendar object
set the Calendar object to the desired date
get the DAY_OF_WEEK of the Calendar object
convert int DAY_OF_WEEK to name of the day
return result

Are you allowed to simplify as described?

You're suffering from the same problem as this thread - you use a 1-based month numbering whereas Calendar uses a 0-based month numbering.

But Greg is right. Calendar has a method called setTime which takes a Date object. Also, Calendar.getInstance() already returns a Calendar instance for the current moment, so in this case (where the Date is also the current moment) it's not necessary to call setTime.

One addition to Greg's post:

Greg Brannon wrote:convert int DAY_OF_WEEK to name of the day
return result

DateFormatSymbols can be used for that. The String[] you're interested in is indexed using the return values of Calendar.get so no need for translations there.

Mr. Spoor,

Thanks, I learned something, but I have a follow up for clarification.

Let's say the Calendar object is today, then today.get( Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK ) returns an integer, 1 through 7, corresponding to SUNDAY through SATURDAY. My point was, however it's done, the integer returned by Calendar's get() method has to be converted from an integer to the name of the day. As you pointed out, that conversion can be done using DateFormatSymbols.

Is that what you meant, or am I missing something more fundamental?

Nope, that's about it. Please note that DateFormatSymbols supports I18N - different locale means different labels. You'll be able to print the weekday names in English, German, French, etc by just changing the Locale object to use.

Thanks. Understand.

Thanks so much all .....