What was the day on the 10th of November in 1938?

Return the day on a specific date

The Calendar class is an abstract class that provides methods for converting between a specific instant in time and a set of calendar fields such as YEAR, MONTH, DAY_OF_MONTH, HOUR, and so on, and for manipulating the calendar fields, such as getting the date of the next week.

You are given a date. You just need to write the method, getDay, which returns the day on that date.

import java.util.*;

public class Result {
    public static String findDay(int month, int day, int year) {
        // Create a Calendar instance
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();

        // Set the calendar to the given date 
        //(month-1) because Calendar months are 0-indexed
        // (i.e., January is 0, February is 1, etc.)
        calendar.set(year, month - 1, day);

        // Get the day of the week
        int dayOfWeek = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);
        System.out.println("dayOfWeek: " + dayOfWeek);

        // Convert the day of the week to a String (1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, etc.)
        String[] days = { "SUNDAY", "MONDAY", "TUESDAY", "WEDNESDAY", "THURSDAY", "FRIDAY", "SATURDAY" };

        // Return the day of the week in uppercase
        // Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK is 1-based (Sunday=1, Monday=2, etc.)
        return days[dayOfWeek - 1];  
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int month = 11;
        int day = 10;
        int year = 1938; 
        System.out.println(findDay(month, day, year));
    }
}

The 10th of November in 1938 was Thursday.

Let’s run and check the result.