Java Date And Time Examples : How To Display Day Of The Week Using Calendar Class

Intro

This articles, will demonstrates how to display day of the week using java.util.Calendar class.

Examples

package com.freesamplecode.java.datetime;

import java.util.Calendar;

public class GetDayOfWeekDemo {
	public static void main(String[] args){
		Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
		
		System.out.println("Current Date (mm-dd-yyyy): "+calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH+1)
				+ "-"+calendar.get(Calendar.DATE) + "-"+calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR));
		
		// create an array day of weeks
		String[] dayOfWeeks = {"Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"};
		
		System.out.println("Current Day is : "+dayOfWeeks[calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)-1]);
		
	}
}

Output

Current Date (mm-dd-yyyy): 11-13-2016
Current Day is : Sunday

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