How to get the day name from a selected date

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I have this   Datetime Now    or 23 10 2009 I want this   Friday  For local date-time  GMT-5  and using Gregorian calendar

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default locale System DateTime Now DayOfWeek ToString      localized version System DateTime Now ToString  dddd      To make the answer more complete      DayOfWeek MSDN article If localization is important  you should use the  dddd  string format as Fredrik pointed out - MSDN  dddd  format article

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DateTime now   DateTime Now string s   now DayOfWeek ToString

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using System  using System Collections Generic  using System Linq  using System Text  using System Threading Tasks  namespace GuessTheDay   class Program       static void Main string   args          Console WriteLine  Enter the Day Number      int day   int Parse Console ReadLine      Console WriteLine   Enter The Month    int month   int Parse Console ReadLine     Console WriteLine  Enter Year     int year   int Parse Console ReadLine     DateTime mydate   new DateTime year month day   string formatteddate   string Format   0 dddd    mydate   Console WriteLine  The day should be     formatteddate

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System Threading Thread CurrentThread CurrentUICulture DateTimeFormat GetDayName System DateTime Now DayOfWeek    or  System Threading Thread CurrentThread CurrentUICulture DateTimeFormat GetDayName DateTime Parse  23 10 2009   DayOfWeek

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DateTime Parse  Eval  date   ToString      DayOfWeek ToString     at the place of Eval  date   you can use any date   get name of day

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DateTime Now DayOfWeek quite easy to guess actually   for any given date      DateTime dt             DayOfWeek dow   dt DayOfWeek    enum    string str   dow ToString      string

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You re looking for the DayOfWeek property   Here s the msdn article

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try this      DateTime Now DayOfWeek

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I use this Extension Method   public static string GetDayName this DateTime date        string  ret   string Empty    Only for  NET Framework 4       var culture   new System Globalization CultureInfo  es-419       lt -  es-419    Spanish  Latin America    en-US    English  United States       ret   culture DateTimeFormat GetDayName date DayOfWeek      lt - Get the Name           ret   culture TextInfo ToTitleCase  ret ToLower        lt - Convert to Capital title     return  ret

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If you want to know the day of the week for your code to do something with it  DateTime Now DayOfWeek will do the job   If you want to display the day of week to the user  DateTime Now ToString  dddd   will give you the localized day name  according to the current culture  MSDN info on the  dddd  format string

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What about if we use String Format here   x000D   x000D  DateTime today   DateTime Today  x000D  String Format   0 dd-MM    1 dddd    today  today    In dd-MM format x000D  String Format   0 MM-dd    1 dddd    today  today    In MM-dd format x000D   x000D   x000D

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