Javascript Date getUTCDay()

Introduction

Javascript Date getUTCDay() returns the UTC date's day of the week as a number (where 0 represents Sunday and 6 represents Saturday).

Return value

An integer number corresponding to the day of the week for the given date, according to universal time: 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, 2 for Tuesday, and so on. 

var today = new Date();
var weekday = today.getUTCDay();
console.log(weekday);//  w w  w.  jav  a  2  s .  c om

Return the name of the weekday: 

var d = new Date();
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";

var n = weekday[d.getUTCDay()];
console.log(n);/*from  w ww  .  j ava  2 s. c o  m*/



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