How to determine day of week by passing specific date?

Question

For Example I have the date: \"23/2/2010\" (23th Feb 2010). I want to pass it to a function which would return the day of week. How can I do this?

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Answer 1

  String input_date="01/08/2012";
  SimpleDateFormat format1=new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
  Date dt1=format1.parse(input_date);
  DateFormat format2=new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE"); 
  String finalDay=format2.format(dt1);

Use this code for find the Day name from a input date.Simple and well tested.