/*
Display Day of Week using Java Calendar
This example shows how to display day of week like Monday, Tuesday etc.
using Java Calendar class.
*/
import java.util.Calendar;
public class DisplayDayOfWeek {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//create Calendar instance
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println("Current date : " + (now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1)
+ "-"
+ now.get(Calendar.DATE)
+ "-"
+ now.get(Calendar.YEAR));
//create an array of days
String[] strDays = new String[]{
"Sunday",
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thusday",
"Friday",
"Saturday"
};
//Day_OF_WEEK starts from 1 while array index starts from 0
System.out.println("Current day is : " +
strDays[now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) - 1]
);
}
}
/*
Typical output would be
Current date : 12-25-2007
Current day is : Tuesday
*/
