Get an array of weekday names for a given locale. - Java java.util

Java examples for java.util:Week

  1. HOME
  2. Java
  3. java.util
  4. Week

Description

Get an array of weekday names for a given locale.

Demo Code

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2005 Will Roethel./*from  w  ww  .  j  a  va  2 s .c om*/
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *    Will Roethel - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
//package com.java2s;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
        System.out.println(java.util.Arrays.toString(getWeekdayNames()));
    }

    /**
     * Get an array of weekday names for a given locale.
     * @param locale Locale
     * @return String[]
     */
    public static String[] getWeekdayNames(Locale locale) {
        // get a norm calendar using the default locale
        SimpleDateFormat dayFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("E", locale);
        String[] weekdayName = new String[7];
        GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(2005,
                java.util.Calendar.JANUARY, 1);
        int currentWeekday = cal.get(java.util.Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
        int daysUntilNextSunday = java.util.Calendar.SATURDAY
                - currentWeekday + 1;
        cal.add(java.util.Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, daysUntilNextSunday);
        for (int iDay = 0; iDay < 7; iDay++) {
            weekdayName[iDay] = dayFormatter.format(cal.getTime())
                    .subSequence(0, 1).toString();
            cal.add(java.util.Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
        }
        return weekdayName;
    }

    /**
     * Get an array of weekday names for the default locale.
     * @return String[]
     */
    public static String[] getWeekdayNames() {
        return getWeekdayNames(Locale.getDefault());
    }
}

Related Tutorials