Ruby program to get the current day of the week (Sunday is 0) using strftime() method

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will get the current day of the week using the strftime() method of Time class and print the result.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get the current day of the week (Sunday is 0) using the strftime() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the current 
# day of the week (Sunday is 0) 
# using strftime() method

time = Time.new();
CurrentDayNumberOfWeek = time.strftime("%w");

print "Current day number of week is: ",CurrentDayNumberOfWeek;

Output

Current day number of week is: 2

Explanation

In the above program, we created the object of the Time class. Then we got the current day of the week where SUNDAY is 0, using the strftime() method with "%w" as an argument, and printed the result.

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