How to retrieve the current day of the week?

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How would I get the current day of the week? Can some please help me?

Your question is totally incomplete and unclear, the simplest answer is to look in the calendar????? — Buhake Sindi, Sep 02 '12 at 15:06

João Silva · Answer 1 · 2012-09-02T15:15:04.610

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Use a Calendar and get the DAY_OF_WEEK field:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
int dayOfWeek = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

Or if you want the day name instead, you can use SimpleDateFormat:

Date today = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE", Locale.ENGLISH); // override the default Locale
String dayNameInWeek = df.format(today);

edited Sep 02 '12 at 15:15

answered Sep 02 '12 at 15:08

João Silva

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However, if you want it in words in the correct language for your Locale, look at DateFormatter. – Paul Tomblin Sep 02 '12 at 15:11

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '12 at 15:15

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To get a text display of the day of the week you can use:

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
System.out.println("Today is " + dateFormat.format(new Date()));

output:

Today is Sunday

answered Sep 02 '12 at 15:15

Reimeus

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How to retrieve the current day of the week?

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