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

Ruby Example: Write a program to get the current day of the week (Sunday is 0) using strftime() method.
Submitted by Nidhi, on February 08, 2022

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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