Determining the Day-of-Week for a Particular Date
This section simply show the current day in word i.e.
the Day of Week for a particular date. Here,
you can learn about the way of doing that.
Following program helps you for showing the current day
in word. This program gets the day of the week using Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK
i.e. the special field of the Calendar class. It returns the numeric
value between 1 to 7.
Here, each and every day is specified for the specific
returned value like 1-Sunday, 2-Monday, 3-Tueseday, 4-Wednesday, 5-Thursday,
6-Friday and 7-Saturday. These specification is completed in the switch
construct.
Here is the code of the program:
import java.util.*;
public class DayOfWeek{
public static void main(String[] args){
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
int day = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
System.out.print("Today is ");
switch(day){
case 1: System.out.print("Sunday");
break;
case 2: System.out.print("Monday");
break;
case 3: System.out.print("Tueseday");
break;
case 4: System.out.print("Wednesday");
break;
case 5: System.out.print("Thursday");
break;
case 6: System.out.print("Friday");
break;
case 7: System.out.print("Saturday");
break;
}
System.out.print(".");
}
}
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