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Asked: May 12, 20262026-05-12T19:37:16+00:00 2026-05-12T19:37:16+00:00

How can one return the next date of a given weekday (it could be

How can one return the next date of a given weekday (it could be either a number 0-6 or names Sunday-Saturday).

Example, if today, on Friday 16-Oct-2009 I passed in:

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-12T19:37:17+00:00

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Just adding 7 doesn’t solve the problem.

The below function will give you the next day of the week.

function nextDay(x){
    var now = new Date();    
    now.setDate(now.getDate() + (x+(7-now.getDay())) % 7);
    return now;
}