Question

I have date string 18-2-2012 , from this how to get the current day name i.e., today is “saturday” like this. for tomorrow’s date 19-2-2012 and the day name is “sunday“.

Answer 1

Use java date formats.

SimpleDateFormat inFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date date = inFormat.parse(input);
SimpleDateFormat outFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
String goal = outFormat.format(date);