Is there a date format to display the day of the week in java?

Question

I know of date formats such as
\"yyyy-mm-dd\" -which displays date in format 2011-02-26
\"yyyy-MMM-dd\"-which displays date

Answer 1

This should display 'Tue':

new SimpleDateFormat("EEE").format(new Date());

This should display 'Tuesday':

new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE").format(new Date());

This should display 'T':

new SimpleDateFormat("EEEEE").format(new Date());

So your specific example would be:

new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-EEE").format(new Date());