javascript: fetch day of the week based on a specific date

Question

I searched stackoverflow but did not find a solution to my problem.

I have a specific date say 2014-05-20 and I want to get the Day of the week for the mentioned date.

I tried the following

var date = new Date();
console.log(date.getDay());

But this return the Current Day. What I require is the day based on the given date!

I also tried

var givendate = '2014-05-20';
new Date(givendate)

But the above does not generate anything.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4822852/how-to-get-the-day-of-week-and-the-month-of-the-year — bruchowski, Apr 22 '14 at 06:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

1

Your question both code you combine and check answer is get on yourself without my answer still i show you code,

var givendate = '2014-05-20';
var date = new Date(givendate);
console.log(date.getDay());

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Community

answered Apr 22 '14 at 06:36

Jaykumar Patel

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 16 '14 at 11:58

1

you may try

var date = new Date(2014, 05, 20).getDay(); // Date(year, month, date)
console.log(date);

you will get integer 0 for sunday - 6 for saturday

edited Jun 16 '14 at 11:58

BenMorel

answered Apr 22 '14 at 06:38

kp singh

2 Answers2