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Hari N 20Hari N 20 

Convert date into Day

Hi All,
I want to convert to today date into only day.

For example, date is 10/24/2016 and it is monday then I want to concert this date as monday and want to store in a string.
Please help me.
Please provide syntax for the same

Thanks in Advance

Regards
Hari
Best Answer chosen by Hari N 20
sfdcMonkey.comsfdcMonkey.com
hi Hari
use this code 
Date mydate = Date.newInstance(2016,10,24);
Datetime dt = DateTime.newInstance(mydate, Time.newInstance(0, 0, 0, 0));
String dayOfWeek=dt.format('EEEE');
System.debug('Day : ' + dayOfWeek);
output is
Monday
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