java.time.LocalDate.getDayOfWeek() Method Example

Description

The java.time.LocalDate.getDayOfWeek() method gets the day-of-week field, which is an enum DayOfWeek.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.time.LocalDate.getDayOfWeek() method.

public DayOfWeek getDayOfWeek()

Return Value

the day-of-week, not null.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.time.LocalDate.getDayOfWeek() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.time.LocalDate;

public class LocalDateDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
	  
      LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse("2017-02-03");
      System.out.println(date.getDayOfWeek());  
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

FRIDAY