dayofweek

Get the day of the week given year, month, and day.

Port of dayofweek function given by Tomohiko Sakamoto on the comp.lang.c Usenet newsgroup into JavaScript.

See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.c/m4YG7Uw72Ic/WQj-pRNzJaIJ

How it works: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Tomohiko-Sakamotos-Algorithm-work

Install

$ yarn add dayofweek
# npm v5+ 
$ npm install dayofweek
# before npm v5 
$ npm install --save dayofweek

Usage

const dayofweek = require('dayofweek');
 
// API
// dayofweek(year, month, day[, translate = true])
 
// Invariants as per Tomohiko Sakamoto's original implementation.
// * year > 1752
// * 1 <= month <= 12
// * 1 <= day <= 31
 
// By default returns days of the week.
dayofweek(2017, 6, 16);
dayofweek(2017, 6, 16, true);
dayofweek(2017, 6, 16, 'long');
// → Friday
 
// Setting translate = 'short' will return shorthand form of the days of the week.
dayofweek(2017, 6, 16, 'short');
// → Fri
 
// Setting translate = false will return an integer representation of the day of the week.
// i.e. 0=Sun, 1=Mon, ..., 6=Sat
dayofweek(2017, 6, 16, false);
// → 5
 
// You can pass a translate function. This function will be given the integer
// representation of the day of the week. See above.
dayofweek(2017, 6, 16,
    day_index =>
        // days of the week in Spanish
        [
            "lunes",
            "martes",
            "miércoles",
            "jueves",
            "viernes",
            "sábado",
            "domingo"
        ][day_index]
);
// → sábado
 
// Or you can pass an array.
dayofweek(2017, 6, 16,
    // days of the week in Spanish
    ["lunes", "martes", "miércoles", "jueves", "viernes", "sábado", "domingo"]
);
// → sábado

License

Public Domain.