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How to know the day of week of selected date from jdatechooser in java

I am using java. I have used JDateChooser to select a date. now I want to display the day (line Sunday, Monday or else day of week) of the selected date. I know how to add JDateChooser but don't know how to get the day of week of selected date. Please help.

Solution

  • JDateChooser will return an instance of java.util.Date, which is, frankly, less than useless now days.

    The trick here is to covert the Date value to a LocalDateTime value, for example...

    Date date = new Date();
LocalDateTime ldt = date.toInstant()
        .atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault())
        .toLocalDateTime();

    Then you can simply query the dayOfWeek value... 

    DayOfWeek dow = ldt.getDayOfWeek();
System.out.println(dow.name());

    Now you can use the DayOfWeek#name value or, because it's a enum, generate your own output as you need