Just adding 7 doesn’t solve the problem. The below function will give you the next day of the week. function nextDay(x){ var now = new Date(); now.setDate(now.getDate() + (x+(7-now.getDay())) % 7); return now; }
The best way is with java.text.DateFormatSymbols DateFormatSymbols symbols = new DateFormatSymbols(new Locale(“it”)); // for the current Locale : // DateFormatSymbols symbols = new DateFormatSymbols(); String[] dayNames = symbols.getShortWeekdays(); for (String s : dayNames) { System.out.print(s + ” “); } // output : dom lun mar mer gio ven sab
Edit: This does not check the edge case where the beginning of the week starts in the prior month. Some updated code to cover this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14688780/308315 In case anyone is still paying attention to this, you need to use ordinalityOfUnit:inUnit:forDate: and set firstWeekday to 2. (1 == Sunday and 7 == Saturday) Here’s the code: … Read more
Joda-Time uses the ISO standard Monday to Sunday week. It does not have the ability to obtain the first day of week, nor to return the day of week index based on any day other than the standard Monday. Finally, weeks are always calculated wrt ISO rules.
Use weekday(): >>> import datetime >>> datetime.datetime.today() datetime.datetime(2012, 3, 23, 23, 24, 55, 173504) >>> datetime.datetime.today().weekday() 4 From the documentation: Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.