Can the jQuery UI Datepicker be made to disable Saturdays and Sundays (and holidays)?

Question

I use a datepicker for choosing an appointment day. I already set the date range to be only for the next month. That works fine. I want to exclude Saturdays and Sundays f

Answer 1

The solution here that everyone likes seems to very intense... personally I think it's much easier to do something like this:

       var holidays = ["12/24/2012", "12/25/2012", "1/1/2013", 
            "5/27/2013", "7/4/2013", "9/2/2013", "11/28/2013", 
            "11/29/2013", "12/24/2013", "12/25/2013"];

       $( "#requestShipDate" ).datepicker({
            beforeShowDay: function(date){
                show = true;
                if(date.getDay() == 0 || date.getDay() == 6){show = false;}//No Weekends
                for (var i = 0; i < holidays.length; i++) {
                    if (new Date(holidays[i]).toString() == date.toString()) {show = false;}//No Holidays
                }
                var display = [show,'',(show)?'':'No Weekends or Holidays'];//With Fancy hover tooltip!
                return display;
            }
        });

This way your dates are human readable. It's not really that different it just makes more sense to me this way.