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Re: Finding weekday for a certain date

#19054
From: Conrad Hoesle-Kienzlen
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 00:00
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Chris,
use "GregorianCalendar" instead.
...Conrad

Chris Fowlkes wrote:

> Is there a way to find what weekday a particular day falls on witout
> using depricated methods?
>
> example...
>
>     Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
>     calendar.set(cYear, cMonth, 1);
>     int weekday = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK );
>
> This should tell you what day a given month starts on, but weekday
> ALWAYS ends up being zero.
>
>     Date dteDate = new Date(cYear - 1900, cMonth, 1);
>     int weekday = dteDate.getDay();
>
> This does work but is depricated. Is there another way?
>
> --
> ******************************************
>
> Email address:        chris@bitwiseinc.com
>
> ******************************************
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