You have a date and need to find what day of the week, month, or year that date falls on.

Use the Calendar class’s get( ) method, which has constants for retrieving most such values.

The Calendar class can return most of these:

// CalendarDemo.java
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(  );    // today
System.out.println("Year: " + c.get(Calendar.YEAR));
System.out.println("Month: " + c.get(Calendar.MONTH));
System.out.println("Day: " + c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
System.out.println("Day of week = " + c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));
System.out.println("Day of year = " + c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR));
System.out.println("Week in Year: " + c.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_YEAR));
System.out.println("Week in Month: " + c.get(Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH));
System.out.println("Day of Week in Month: " + 
            c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH));
System.out.println("Hour: " + c.get(Calendar.HOUR));
System.out.println("AM or PM: " + c.get(Calendar.AM_PM));
System.out.println("Hour (24-hour clock): " + 
            c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
System.out.println("Minute: " + c.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
System.out.println("Second: " + c.get(Calendar.SECOND));

This chatty program shows most of the fields in the Calendar class:

Year: 1999
Month: 6
Day: 19
Day of week = 2
Day of year = 200
Week in Year: 30
Week in Month: 4
Day of Week in Month: 3
Hour: 3
AM or PM: 1
Hour (24-hour clock): 15
Minute: 18
Second: 42