How to find the day of the week on any given date in Swift

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import Foundation

// Zeller's Congruence implementation
// Returns the day of the week for a given date.
func dayOfWeek(_ d: Int, _ mInput: Int, _ yInput: Int) -> String {

    // Zeller's output mapping:
    // 0 = Saturday, 1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, ... 6 = Friday
    let names = [
        "Saturday", "Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday"
    ]

    var m = mInput
    var y = yInput

    // In Zeller's formula, January and February are counted
    // as months 13 and 14 of the previous year.
    if m < 3 {
        m += 12   // Convert Jan → 13, Feb → 14
        y -= 1    // Move to previous year
    }

    let K = y % 100   // Year of the century (last two digits)
    let J = y / 100   // Zero-based century (e.g., 2024 → 20)

    // Zeller's formula (clearer step-by-step version):

    let term1 = d                     // day of month
    let term2 = (13 * (m + 1)) / 5    // month adjustment
    let term3 = K                     // year of century
    let term4 = K / 4                 // leap years in century
    let term5 = J / 4                 // leap centuries
    let term6 = 5 * J                 // century correction

    // Combine all terms and take modulo 7
    let h = (term1 + term2 + term3 + term4 + term5 + term6) % 7

    // Return the corresponding weekday name
    return names[h]
}

let d = 30
let m = 5
let y = 2024

print(dayOfWeek(d, m, y))



/*
run:

Thursday

*/

 



answered 7 hours ago by avibootz
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