In this example, you will see the use of getDay() method of Date class in java.

Use of getDay() method of Date class in java.

In this example, you will see the use of getDay() method of java date class. It returns day of  week for the given date. The value is 0=Sunday 1=Monday 2= Tuesday 3=Wednesday  4=Thursday 5=Friday 6=Saturday.

Code:

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class GetDateMethod {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
	Date obDate = new Date();
	SimpleDateFormat obDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
	System.out.println("Current Date of system :"
		+ obDateFormat.format(obDate.getTime()));
	System.out.println("Day of given date : " + obDate.getDay());
    }
}

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