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

Yep - 'E' does the trick

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Date date = new Date();
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-E");
System.out.println(df.format(date));