How to find the day of the week represented by a particular date

In this article, I will be demonstrating how you can find the day of the week represented by a particular date. You can use Java 8 LocalDate class for this. The following code demonstrates this:

LocalDate date = LocalDate.now();
DayOfWeek dayOfWeek = LocalDate.of(2019, 8, 11);
System.out.println("dayOfWeek="+dayOfWeek);

The LocalDate class has a method called getDayOfWeek. This returns a DayOfWeek enum which corresponds to the day of the week.  Here a LocalDate object corresponding to 11th August 2019 is created which corresponds to a Sunday. So when you execute this code, it prints the following output:

dayOfWeek=SUNDAY