Is there a date format to display the day of the week in java?

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rogerstone picture rogerstone · Feb 25, 2011 · Viewed 167.4k times · Source

I know of date formats such as
"yyyy-mm-dd" -which displays date in format 2011-02-26
"yyyy-MMM-dd"-which displays date in format 2011-FEB-26

to be used in eg:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(
                "yyyy/MMM/dd ");

I want a format which would help me display the day of the week like 2011-02-MON or anything. I just want the day of the week to be displayed in characters with the month and the year. Can you tell me of a format like this?

Answer

Nathan Feger picture Nathan Feger · Feb 25, 2011

This should display 'Tue':

new SimpleDateFormat("EEE").format(new Date());

This should display 'Tuesday':

new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE").format(new Date());

This should display 'T':

new SimpleDateFormat("EEEEE").format(new Date());

So your specific example would be:

new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-EEE").format(new Date());

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