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

LocalDate date=LocalDate.now();

System.out.println(date.getDayOfWeek());//prints THURSDAY
System.out.println(date.getDayOfWeek().getDisplayName(TextStyle.SHORT, Locale.US) );  //prints Thu   
java.time.DayOfWeek is a enum which returns the singleton instance for the day-of-week of the weekday of the date.