[ajug-members] Day of week calculation

[Steven Wisener]

You are just printing out the Calendar constants, which never change.
You need to use the get() method to get the correct value, for
example:

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class DowTest {
    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println(cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
        cal.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, -1);
        System.out.println(cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
    }
}

This will print out 2 different days of the week.

--Steven



----- Original Message -----
From: Barnes, Michael D <michael.barnes at bellsouth.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:35:01 -0500
Subject: [ajug-members] Day of week calculation
To: ajug-members at ajug.org













I need some help getting the Day of week from a day.




I am trying to use the following code but keep getting the same answer
no matter what the date is.




           GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar();


            //GregorianCalendar gc = new
GregorianCalendar(dateSelected.getYear(),dateSelected.getMonth(),dateSelected.getDay()-1);



            gc.setTime(dateSelected);


            java.util.Date d = gc.getTime();


            System.out.println("Date Year = " + d.getYear());




            int dayOfMonth =gc.DAY_OF_WEEK;


            System.out.println("Date of the Month : " + dayOfMonth);


            System.out.println("Date of the Month : " + gc.DATE);




What am I doing wrong.




Thanks


Mike Barnes