Java Tutorial/I18N/DateFormatSymbols

An alternate way to get week days symbols

   <source lang="java">

import java.text.DateFormatSymbols; import java.util.Calendar; public class Main {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
   String dayNames[] = new DateFormatSymbols().getWeekdays();
   Calendar date2 = Calendar.getInstance();
   System.out.println("Today is a " + dayNames[date2.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)]);
 }

}</source>