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how to get the day name from date in javascript

var days = ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'];
var d = new Date(dateString);
var dayName = days[d.getDay()];

day name date js

new Date(dateString).toLocaleString('en-us', {weekday:'long'})

get day name from date javascript

const dayIndex = new Date().getDay();
const getDayName = (dayIndex) =>{
	const days = ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'];
	return days[dayIndex];
}
const dayName = getDayName(dayIndex)

get name of day javascript

var today = new Date();

console.log(today.getDay()); // sunday = 0, monday = 1, etc..

js get day name from date

function getDayName(dateStr, locale)
{
    var date = new Date(dateStr);
    return date.toLocaleDateString(locale, { weekday: 'long' });        
}

var dateStr = '05/23/2014';
var day = getDayName(dateStr, "nl-NL"); // Gives back 'Vrijdag' which is Dutch for Friday.