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

There are various formats from which you can display the dates.

Check this for all the date formats compatible with the calendar.

In your case dateFormat: 'DD' displays the WeekDays.

$("input[name=date]").datepicker({
    dateFormat: 'DD',
    changeYear:true,
    changeMonth:true,
    onSelect: function(dateText, inst) {
         alert(dateText); // alerts the day name
    }
});