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.

Recommended: Please solve it on “PRACTICE” first, before moving on to the solution.

Following is a simple 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 <bits/stdc++.h> 
using namespace std; 
  
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 Code 
int main()  
{  
    int day = dayofweek(30, 8, 2010);  
    cout << day;  
  
    return 0;  
}  
  
// This is code is contributed  
// by rathbhupendra 

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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