how to get day on particular date

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how to get day on particular date

Dec 18th, 2007

hi
i created a html form in which i took a date as input now how can i determine the day(sunday or monday etc) on that particular date .

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Re: how to get day on particular date

Dec 18th, 2007

Parse the String to a Date using SimpleDateFormat, initiate a Calendar with that date, then use the get(int) method of the Calendar.

See the API docs for SimpleDateFormat and Calendar/GregorianCalendar.

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