30-seconds-of-code/snippets/dayName.md

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Day name	date,beginner	2020-10-04T00:31:08+03:00	2020-11-01T20:50:57+02:00

Gets the name of the weekday from a Date object.

• Use Date.prototype.toLocaleDateString() with the { weekday: 'long' } option to retrieve the weekday.
• Use the optional second argument to get a language-specific name or omit it to use the default locale.

const dayName = (date, locale) =>
  date.toLocaleDateString(locale, { weekday: 'long' });

dayName(new Date()); // 'Saturday'
dayName(new Date('09/23/2020'), 'de-DE'); // 'Samstag'