Javascript - Get the Day of The Week
~ 2 min read. Published 26 Jul 2015You can use methods like this to easily get which day of the week we it is now.
function isMonday() {
d = new Date().getDay();
return d === 1;
}
function isMondayOrSunday() {
d = new Date().getDay();
return d === 0 || d === 1;
}
but for the convenience and also not to have to remember where the week starts (it starts on Sunday with 0) you can use something like the following:
function getDayOfWeek() {
var d = new Date();
var weekday = new Array(7);
weekday[0] = "Sunday";
weekday[1] = "Monday";
weekday[2] = "Tuesday";
weekday[3] = "Wednesday";
weekday[4] = "Thursday";
weekday[5] = "Friday";
weekday[6] = "Saturday";
return weekday[d.getDay()];
}
Paired together with the previous post about obtaining any timezone for the date, you can use these methods for any timezone replacing the new Date() with the getGMTRelativeDate(GMT_offsetHours)
e.g.
function isMonday() {
d = getGMTRelativeDate(-5).getDay(); // for EST time
return d === 1;
}