Date.getDay()

Returns the day of the week (from 0-6)

The getDay() method returns the day of the week for the specified date according to local time, where 0 represents Sunday. For the day of the month see getDate().

var birthday = new Date('August 19, 1975 23:15:30');
var day1 = birthday.getDay();
// Sunday - Saturday : 0 - 6

console.log(day1);
// expected output: 2

Syntax

dateObj.getDay()

Return value

An integer number corresponding to the day of the week for the given date, according to local time: 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, 2 for Tuesday, and so on.

Examples

Using getDay()

The second statement below assigns the value 1 to weekday, based on the value of the Date object Xmas95. December 25, 1995, is a Monday.

var Xmas95 = new Date('December 25, 1995 23:15:30');
var weekday = Xmas95.getDay();

console.log(weekday); // 1

References

Date.prototype.getDay() - JavaScript | MDN

Contributors to this page

Uros Durdevic