DAY 6: Javascript Dates

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Objective

In this challenge, we learn about JavaScript Dates. Check out the attached tutorial for more details.

Task

Given a date string,

, in the format MM/DD/YYYY, find and return the day name for that date. Each day name must be one of the following strings: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. For example, the day name for the date 12/07/2016 is Wednesday.

Input Format

Locked stub code in the editor reads the following input from stdin:
The first line contains an integer,

, denoting the number of dates to check.
Each line

of the

subsequent lines contains a date in MM/DD/YYYY format; each date denotes some

that is passed to the function.

Constraints

It is guaranteed that the input only consists of valid dates.

Output Format

The function must return a string denoting the day of the week corresponding to the date denoted by

Sample Input 0

2
10/11/2009
11/10/2010

Sample Output 0

Sunday
Wednesday

Explanation 0

The function is called for the following

dates:

The date 10/11/2009 was a Sunday, so we return Sunday.
The date 11/10/2010 was a Wednesday, so we return Wednesday.

SOLUTION

function getDayName(dateString) {
    let dayName;
    // Write your code here
    var day_names = ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"]
    var date = new Date(dateString);
    
    dayName = day_names[date.getDay()];
    
    
    return dayName;
}

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