# Printing parts of a date with words in JavaScript

You already know how to print the day of the week as a number using the `getDay` method. Often, however, we do not need the number of the day of the week, but its textual name. Let's write code that will convert the numbers returned by the `getDay` method into the corresponding names of the days of the week.

First, let's write a code that will display the number of the current day of the week:

`let date = new Date(); let day = date.getDay(); console.log(day);`

And now let's refine this code so that the screen displays not the number of the day of the week, but its name (for brevity, Sunday will be `'Sun'`, Monday `'Mon'` and so on)

To solve the problem, we will make an array of days of the week `days` and start it from Sunday (since this is the zero day):

`let days = ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat'];`

How to use this array to display, for example, `'Tue'`? You need to pass the number of this day in square brackets (Tuesday has the number `2`):

`let days = ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat']; console.log(days[2]); // shows 'Tue'`

However, we don't want to pass the day of the week manually, but rather let JavaScript detect the current day and display its name. To do this, we need to combine what the `getDay` method returns with our `days` array:

`let date = new Date(); let day = date.getDay(); let days = ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat']; console.log(days[day]);`

Let the following array be given:

`let months = [ 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec' ];`

Use this array to output the name of the current month.

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