Get day name given year, month and day number

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

24 Aug 2006 7:47 PM

Stupid48

Hmm.

Is there a way to get the day name (ie Monday) given a year, month and
day number?

Thanks,

Chris

24 Aug 2006 9:09 PM

Jon Meyer

You could do something like.

create your date

DateTime date = DateTime.Parse("08/24/2006");

string dateString = date.ToLongDateString();

dateString will contain the day name and you should be able to parse it out
of there.

-Jon

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"Stupid48" <cf_r***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hmm.
>
> Is there a way to get the day name (ie Monday) given a year, month and
> day number?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>

25 Aug 2006 2:06 AM

Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]

Stupid48 wrote:

> Hmm.
>
> Is there a way to get the day name (ie Monday) given a year, month and
> day number?

using System;
using System.Globalization;

// ...

DateTime dt = new DateTime(year,month.day);

DayOfWeek dow = dt.DayOfWeek; // DayOfWeek is an enum

// To get the localized day name...
DateTimeFormatInfo dfi = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;
string dayName = dfi.DayNames[dow];

-cd