Get week day name from jquery ui calendar

Question

I want to get the name of the Day when choosing date from jquery ui calender.

for example, when choosing 14-3-2012 it should returns Wednesday.

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Answer 1

Create an array with the list of days in it ...

var weekday=new Array(7);
weekday[0]="Sunday";
weekday[1]="Monday";
weekday[2]="Tuesday";
weekday[3]="Wednesday";
weekday[4]="Thursday";
weekday[5]="Friday";
weekday[6]="Saturday";

Then in your onselect function get the day number and use the above array to return the day of the week

onSelect: function(dateText, inst) {
  var date = $(this).datepicker('getDate');
  var dayOfWeek = weekday[date.getUTCDay()];
  // dayOfWeek is then a string containing the day of the week

}