How to get the day from timezone in java

Question

My Input will be timezone

String timeZone = currentTimeZone.getID();
timezone = America/Los_Angeles

Out put should be the day belongs to that timezone .

Monday

Here is what I have tried so far.

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss"); 
Date datetime = new Date(); 
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Calcutta")); 
System.out.println("Asia/Calcutta "+ sdf.format(datetime));

Please show what have you tried so far and explain specific problem you are having. — Sanjeev, Jun 20 '16 at 10:28
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss"); Date datetime = new Date(); sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Calcutta")); System.out.println("Asia/Calcutta "+ sdf.format(datetime)); — Meenu, Jun 20 '16 at 10:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 20 '16 at 10:27

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Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar LATime = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles"));
LATime.setTimeInMillis(calendar.getTimeInMillis());
int year = LATime.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int month = LATime.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int date = LATime.get(Calendar.DATE);
int dayOfWeek = calender.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

Try it out

answered Jun 20 '16 at 10:27

Boola

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Only the day out of it OUTPUT=MONDAY – Meenu Jun 20 '16 at 10:29
dayOfWeek will give you day, you can omit others – Boola Jun 20 '16 at 10:36
it will return integer – Meenu Jun 20 '16 at 10:37
DAY_OF_WEEK public static final int DAY_OF_WEEK Field number for get and set indicating the day of the week. This field takes values SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY. – Boola Jun 20 '16 at 10:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 20 '16 at 10:42

You can use other answer which gives you an integer and then you can map that to Day of Week accordingly or you can use SimpleDateFormat to print Day of Week like this:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE");
Date datetime = new Date();
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles"));
System.out.println("America/Los_Angeles " + sdf.format(datetime));

Hope this helps.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 20 '16 at 10:53

>  String[] days =
>                 {"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"};
>         Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
>         Calendar LATime = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles"));
>         LATime.setTimeInMillis(calendar.getTimeInMillis());
>         int year = LATime.get(Calendar.YEAR);
>         int month = LATime.get(Calendar.MONTH);
>         int date = LATime.get(Calendar.DATE);
>         int dayOfWeek = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
>         System.out.println(days[dayOfWeek -1]);

Also we can set the calendar.setFirstDayOfWeek(); default it is sunday the starting of the week.

How to get the day from timezone in java

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