你可以使用下面的方法通过传递一个特定的日期来获取星期几，

这里对于Calendar类的set方法，难点在于month参数的索引将从0开始。

public static String getDay(int day, int month, int year) {

        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

        if(month==1){
            cal.set(year,0,day);
        }else{
            cal.set(year,month-1,day);
        }

        int dow = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

        switch (dow) {
        case 1:
            return "SUNDAY";
        case 2:
            return "MONDAY";
        case 3:
            return "TUESDAY";
        case 4:
            return "WEDNESDAY";
        case 5:
            return "THURSDAY";
        case 6:
            return "FRIDAY";
        case 7:
            return "SATURDAY";
        default:
            System.out.println("GO To Hell....");
        }

        return null;
    }

通过使用java.util.scanner包给用户输入日期、月和年来查找星期几的程序:

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Calender {
    public static String getDay(String day, String month, String year) {

        int ym, yp, d, ay, a = 0;
        int by = 20;
        int[] y = new int[]{6, 4, 2, 0};
        int[] m = new int []{0, 3, 3, 6, 1, 4, 6, 2, 5, 0, 3, 5};

        String[] wd = {"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"};

        int gd = Integer.parseInt(day);
        int gm = Integer.parseInt(month);
        int gy = Integer.parseInt(year);

        ym = gy % 100;
        yp = ym / 4;
        ay = gy / 100;

        while (ay != by) {
            by = by + 1;
            a = a + 1;

            if(a == 4) {
                a = 0;
            }
        }

        if ((ym % 4 == 0) && (gm == 2)) {
            d = (gd + m[gm - 1] + ym + yp + y[a] - 1) % 7;
        } else
            d = (gd + m[gm - 1] + ym + yp + y[a]) % 7;

        return wd[d];
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

        String day = in.next();
        String month = in.next();
        String year = in.next();

        System.out.println(getDay(day, month, year));
    }
}

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Scanner;

class DayFromDate {

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        System.out.println("Enter the date(dd/mm/yyyy):");
        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
        String Date = scan.nextLine();

        try {
            boolean dateValid = dateValidate(Date);

            if(dateValid == true) {
                SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat( "dd/MM/yy" );  
                java.util.Date date = df.parse( Date );   
                df.applyPattern( "EEE" );  
                String day= df.format( date ); 

                if(day.compareTo("Sat") == 0 || day.compareTo("Sun") == 0) {
                    System.out.println(day + ": Weekend");
                } else {
                    System.out.println(day + ": Weekday");
                }
            } else {
                System.out.println("Invalid Date!!!");
            }
        } catch(Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Invalid Date Formats!!!");
        }
     }

    static public boolean dateValidate(String d) {

        String dateArray[] = d.split("/");
        int day = Integer.parseInt(dateArray[0]);
        int month = Integer.parseInt(dateArray[1]);
        int year = Integer.parseInt(dateArray[2]);
        System.out.print(day + "\n" + month + "\n" + year + "\n");
        boolean leapYear = false;

        if((year % 4 == 0) && (year % 100 != 0) || (year % 400 == 0)) {
            leapYear = true;
        }

        if(year > 2099 || year < 1900)
            return false;

        if(month < 13) {
            if(month == 1 || month == 3 || month == 5 || month == 7 || month == 8 || month == 10 || month == 12) {
                if(day > 31)
                    return false;
            } else if(month == 4 || month == 6 || month == 9 || month == 11) {
                if(day > 30)
                    return false;
            } else if(leapYear == true && month == 2) {
                if(day > 29)
                    return false;
            } else if(leapYear == false && month == 2) {
                if(day > 28)
                    return false;
            }

            return true;    
        } else return false;
    }
}

java.time

使用java。在Java 8及以后版本中内置了时间框架。

DayOfWeek枚举可以生成一个字符串，其中包含自动本地化为本地语言和文化规范的日期名称。指定一个TextStyle来指示您想要长形式或缩写名称。

import java.time.LocalDate
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter
import java.time.format.TextStyle
import java.util.Locale
import java.time.DayOfWeek;

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d/M/yyyy");
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse("23/2/2010", formatter); // LocalDate = 2010-02-23
DayOfWeek dow = date.getDayOfWeek();  // Extracts a `DayOfWeek` enum object.
String output = dow.getDisplayName(TextStyle.SHORT, Locale.US); // String = Tue

我用这个

    String[] weekdays = "Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday".split(" ");

然后

weekdays[calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) - 1]

获取特定的工作日

LocalDate date=LocalDate.now();

System.out.println(date.getDayOfWeek());//prints THURSDAY
System.out.println(date.getDayOfWeek().getDisplayName(TextStyle.SHORT, Locale.US) );  //prints Thu   
java.time.DayOfWeek is a enum which returns the singleton instance for the day-of-week of the weekday of the date.