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Ruby program to get the current weekday in 3 characters using strftime() method

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will get the current weekday in 3 characters using the strftime() method of Time class and print the result.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get the current weekday in 3 characters using the strftime() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the current weekday 
# in 3 characters using strftime() method

time = Time.new();
weekday = time.strftime("%a");

print "Weekday is: ",weekday;

Output

Weekday is: Thu

Explanation

In the above program, we created the object of Time class, and got the current weekday in 3 characters using the strftime() method with "%a" as an argument and printed the result.

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