Dart DateTime weekday
Syntax & Examples

Syntax of DateTime.weekday

The syntax of DateTime.weekday property is:

 int weekday

This weekday property of DateTime the day of the week monday..sunday.

Return Type

DateTime.weekday returns value of type int.


✐ Examples

1 Get the day of the week for the current date

In this example,

  1. We create a variable date representing the current date and time using DateTime.now().
  2. We access the weekday property of date to get the day of the week as an integer (1-7, where 1 represents Monday and 7 represents Sunday).
  3. We print the day of the week to standard output. Output varies depending on the parsed date and time.

Dart Program

void main() {
  var date = DateTime.now();
  print(date.weekday); // Output: 1-7 (Monday-Sunday)
}

Output

5

2 Store and print the day of the week

In this example,

  1. We create a variable date representing a specific date and time using DateTime.utc().
  2. We assign the day of the week from date.weekday to a variable dayOfWeek.
  3. We then print the day of the week using string interpolation.

Dart Program

void main() {
  var date = DateTime.utc(2021, 5, 3, 10, 15, 30);
  var dayOfWeek = date.weekday;
  print('Day of the week: $dayOfWeek'); // Output: Day of the week: 1-7 (Monday-Sunday)
}

Output

Day of the week: 1

3 Print the current day of the week directly

In this example,

  1. We create a variable date representing a specific date and time using DateTime.parse().
  2. We assign the day of the week from date.weekday to a variable dayOfWeek.
  3. We print the day of the week directly using string interpolation.

Dart Program

void main() {
  var date = DateTime.parse('2029-05-03T10:15:30');
  var dayOfWeek = date.weekday;
  print('Day of the week: $dayOfWeek'); // Output: Day of the week: 1-7 (Monday-Sunday)
}

Output

Day of the week: 4

Summary

In this Dart tutorial, we learned about weekday property of DateTime: the syntax and few working examples with output and detailed explanation for each example.