retrieving day from the given date in string in javascript

Question

I have this date in this format.

   var str="2019-08-19";(year/month/date)
   var parts =str.split('-');
   var day =parseInt(parts[2],10);

I need to figure out as which day was 19th (Monday/Tuesday /...) . What i tried doing was splitting the given date but that could only give the information such as 19 etc

Possible duplicate of [Day Name from Date in JS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24998624/day-name-from-date-in-js) — Hassan Imam, Aug 22 '19 at 07:08
`new Date('2019-08-19').getDay()` 0 - Sunday -> 6 - Saturday. See docs (here)[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getDay] — phuzi, Aug 22 '19 at 07:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '19 at 07:10

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You can simply do this

  var d = new Date( "2019-08-19");
  var weekday = ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'];

  var n = weekday[d.getDay()];

answered Aug 22 '19 at 07:10

Masuk Helal Anik

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Sagar Tajpara · Answer 2 · 2019-08-22T10:09:45.540

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Following example will help you.

var days = ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'];

var d = new Date("2019-08-18");  

var dayName = days[d.getDay()];

document.getElementById("myId").innerHTML = dayName;

edited Aug 22 '19 at 10:09

answered Aug 22 '19 at 07:19

Sagar Tajpara

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Welcome to SO, please edit your answer and use "Code Sample" for greater readability. – Nima Derakhshanjan Aug 22 '19 at 07:22

retrieving day from the given date in string in javascript

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