Question

You are given a date in format "{day}-{month}-{year}"

Calculate and print the day of week in English.

Examples:

• Input: 18-04-2016; Output: Monday
• Input: 27-11-1996; Output: Wednesday

Answer 1

Here is the solution:

<?php
$input = readline();
$dayOfWeek = new DateTime($input);
echo $dayOfWeek->format("l");

Here are all the parameters of the format method of DateTime Class: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php