Java Calendar to Display Day of Week

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

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