Finding day in the date

[Farakh khan]

Hello,

How can I know the day of the date e.g. 27/3/2011

Thanks & best regards

[John Jai]

Form a Calendar instance with the date value and get the day by getting Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK

[Vijay Tidake]

Hi,

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
		/*
		 * As month starts wit index 0-Jan and so on
		 * 
		 * 02 means March
		 */
		cal.set(2011, 02, 27);

		System.out.println(cal.getTime().getDay());
		/*
		 * (0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, 2 = Tuesday, 3 = Wednesday, 4 = Thursday, 5
		 * = Friday, 6 = Saturday)
		 */

Hope this helps

Thanks

[John Jai]

... and if you are using Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK note that Sunday = 1 & so on.

[Farakh khan]

Thanks all for fixing my problem

Best regards

[Rob Spoor]

Vijay Tidake wrote:System.out.println(cal.getTime().getDay());[/code]

Hope this helps

Not really. cal.getTime() returns a Date object, and Date.getDay() is deprecated and should not be used. You already have a Calendar object, use that. So once you have that, use cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK).

As for the return value, compare that to the constants Calendar.SUNDAY, Calendar.MONDAY, ..., Calendar.SATURDAY. These are valued from 1 to 7, but your code will be more readable and less error-prone.

[Campbell Ritchie]

If you simply wish to display the day of the week, it might be easier to use a %t tag and the printf method.