Find day of the week for a given date

Write a function that calculates the day of the week for any particular date in the past or future. A typical application is to calculate the day of the week on which someone was born or some other special event occurred.

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Following is a simple C function suggested by Sakamoto, Lachman, Keith and Craver to calculate day. The following function returns 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, etc.

C

/* A program to find day of a given date */
#include<stdio.h>

int dayofweek(int d, int m, int y)
{
    static int t[] = { 0, 3, 2, 5, 0, 3, 5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 4 };
    y -= m < 3;
    return ( y + y/4 - y/100 + y/400 + t[m-1] + d) % 7;
}

/* Driver function to test above function */
int main()
{
    int day = dayofweek(30, 8, 2010);
    printf ("%d", day);

    return 0;
}

Java

// A program to find day of a given date 

class GFG
{
static int dayofweek(int d, int m, int y)
{
    int t[] = { 0, 3, 2, 5, 0, 3, 5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 4 };
    y -= (m < 3) ? 1 : 0;
    return ( y + y/4 - y/100 + y/400 + t[m-1] + d) % 7;
}

// Driver Program to test above function
public static void main(String arg[])
{
    int day = dayofweek(30, 8, 2010);
    System.out.print(day);
}
}

// This code is contributed
// by Anant Agarwal.

Python3

# Python3 program to find day
# of a given date

def dayofweek(d, m, y):
    t = [ 0, 3, 2, 5, 0, 3,
          5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 4 ]
    y -= m < 3
    return (( y + int(y / 4) - int(y / 100)
             + int(y / 400) + t[m - 1] + d) % 7)

# Driver Code
day = dayofweek(30, 8, 2010)
print(day)

# This code is contributed by Shreyanshi Arun.

C#

// C# program to find day of a given date 
using System;

class GFG {
    
    static int dayofweek(int d, int m, int y)
    {
        int []t = { 0, 3, 2, 5, 0, 3, 5, 
                            1, 4, 6, 2, 4 };
        y -= (m < 3) ? 1 : 0;
        
        return ( y + y/4 - y/100 + y/400 
                         + t[m-1] + d) % 7;
    }
    
    // Driver Program to test above function
    public static void Main()
    {
        int day = dayofweek(30, 8, 2010);
        
        Console.Write(day); 
    }
}

// This code is contributed by Sam007.

PHP

<?php
// PHP program to find
// day of a given date
function dayofweek($d, $m, $y)
{
    static $t = array(0, 3, 2, 5, 0, 3,
                      5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 4);
    $y -= $m < 3;
    return ($y + $y / 4 - $y / 100 + 
            $y / 400 + $t[$m - 1] + $d) % 7;
}

// Driver Code
$day = dayofweek(30, 8, 2010);
echo $day;

// This code is contributed by mits.
?>

Output : 1 (Monday)

See this for explanation of the above function.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determination_of_the_day_of_the_week

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