JavaScript: Check whether a date is a weekend date
JavaScript Datetime: Exercise-7 with Solution
Write a JavaScript function to test whether a date is a weekend.
Test Data :
console.log(is_weekend('Nov 15, 2014'));
console.log(is_weekend('Nov 16, 2014'));
console.log(is_weekend('Nov 17, 2014'));
Output :
"weekend"
"weekend"
undefined
Sample Solution:-
HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>JavaScript Weekend test</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
JavaScript Code:
var is_weekend = function(date1){
var dt = new Date(date1);
if(dt.getDay() == 6 || dt.getDay() == 0)
{
return "weekend";
}
}
console.log(is_weekend('Nov 15, 2014'));
console.log(is_weekend('Nov 16, 2014'));
console.log(is_weekend('Nov 17, 2014'));
Sample Output:
weekend weekend undefined
Flowchart:

Live Demo:
See the Pen JavaScript - Check whether a date is a weekend date-date-ex- 7 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.
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