I cant find a way of getting the day from a date string. The format of the string is dd/mm/yyyy and I want to use getDay() to get the current weekday.
Is this possible? I know i'd have to convert my string to a Date object but cant find a list of accepted formats
Sometimes, problems are a lot simpler than they seem.
var date = "16/06/2014";
var dayOfDate = date.substr(0,2);
If a single-digit day is possible, try this:
var date = "5/6/2014";
var parts = date.split("/");
var dayOfDate = parts[0];
And sometimes, it pays to read the question >_>
Continuing from the second option above:
var dateObj = new Date(parts[2], parts[1]-1, parts[0]);
// parts[1]-1 because months are zero-based
var dayOfWeek = dateObj.getDay();
Since Date.prototype.parse() doesn't seem to support that format. I would write a parseDate(),
function parseDate(input) {
var parts = input.split('/');
// Note: months are 0-based
return new Date(parts[2], parts[1]-1, parts[0]);
}
function getName(day) {
if (day == 0) return 'Sunday';
else if (day == 1) return 'Monday';
else if (day == 2) return 'Tuesday';
else if (day == 3) return 'Wednesday';
else if (day == 4) return 'Thursday';
else if (day == 5) return 'Friday';
return 'Saturday';
}
var d = parseDate('16/06/2014');
var weekday = d.getDay();
var weekdayName = getName(weekday);
and JSFiddle.
getName could be much simpler as return ["Sun","Mon","Tues","Wednes","Thurs","Fri","Satur"][day]+"day";