How to find the day of the week on any given date in C#

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using System;

public class MainClass
{
    // Zeller's Congruence implementation
    // Returns the day of the week for a given date.
    public static string dayOfWeek(int d, int m, int y) {
        // Zeller's output mapping:
        // 0 = Saturday, 1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, ... 6 = Friday
        string[] names = {
            "Saturday", "Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
            "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday"
        };

        // In Zeller's formula, January and February are counted
        // as months 13 and 14 of the previous year.
        if (m < 3) {
            m += 12;   // Convert Jan → 13, Feb → 14
            y -= 1;    // Move to previous year
        }

        int K = y % 100;   // Year of the century (last two digits)
        int J = y / 100;   // Zero-based century (e.g., 2024 → 20)

        // Zeller's formula (clearer step-by-step version):

        int term1 = d;                     // day of month
        int term2 = (13 * (m + 1)) / 5;    // month adjustment
        int term3 = K;                     // year of century
        int term4 = K / 4;                 // leap years in century
        int term5 = J / 4;                 // leap centuries
        int term6 = 5 * J;                 // century correction

        // Combine all terms and take modulo 7
        int h = (term1 + term2 + term3 + term4 + term5 + term6) % 7;

        // Return the corresponding weekday name
        return names[h];
    }

    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        int d = 30, m = 5, y = 2024;

        Console.WriteLine(dayOfWeek(d, m, y));
    }
}



/*
run:

Thursday

*/

 



answered 9 hours ago by avibootz
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