How to display name of the weekdays in Java

Problem Description

How to display name of the weekdays?

Solution

This example displays the names of the weekdays in short form with the help of DateFormatSymbols().getWeekdays() method of DateFormatSymbols class.

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.DateFormatSymbols;

public class Main {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      String[] weekdays = new DateFormatSymbols().getWeekdays();
      
      for (int i = 2; i < (weekdays.length-1); i++) {
         String weekday = weekdays[i];
         System.out.println("weekday = " + weekday);
      }
   }
}

Result

The above code sample will produce the following result.

weekday = Monday
weekday = Tuesday
weekday = Wednesday
weekday = Thursday
weekday = Friday

The following is an another sample example of display name of the weekdays

import java.text.Format;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Calendar;

public class Main {
   public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
      Date d = new Date();
      SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE", Locale.US); 
      String str = dateFormat.format(d);
      System.out.println(str);
   }
}

The above code sample will produce the following result.

Fri