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.

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.

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/* 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

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/* 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; 


} 



















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// 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. 



















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# 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. 



















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// 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. 



















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<?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. 


?> 



















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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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