regarding java.calender

[kit james]

Hi,
I have a question here... can I retrieve the day of a week by jst specifying the exact date ?
say for eg:
I specify 02/02/03
and is there any method or function I can get the day of the week this date ?

[Joel McNary]

No problem. Just take a look at the java.util.Calendar class and/or the java.text.SimpleDateFormat class. If you create a Calendar and call aCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) you will receive a number representing the day of the week. If you want a string representation, use a SimpledateFormat.

public class Test{
public static void main(String argv[]){
java.util.Calendar myCal = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
myCal.set(2003, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0); //Remember, months are zero-indexed!
java.text.SimpleDateFormat wholeDate = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy");
java.text.SimpleDateFormat onlyTheDay = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
System.out.println("The date is: " + wholeDate.format(myCal.getTime()));
System.out.println("The day Of the week is: " + myCal.get(myCal.DAY_OF_WEEK));
System.out.println(" (This is a " + onlyTheDay.format(myCal.getTime()) + ")");
}
}

Result:
The date is: February 2, 2003
The day Of the week is: 1
(This is a Sunday)