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kotlin - What's the difference between Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) and Calander.DAY_OF_WEEK in java

I'm new to Kotlin and while doing a course there was a bit where you worked with the current weekday.

The course used this java code to get it:

import java.util.*

Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)

but I don't understand why Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK wouldn't work either, or whats the difference between the two. Thanks for the explanation

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Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK is a constant number, used to access fields within the Calendar object.

Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) uses this constant number to read the value of the "day of week" field from the calendar.

This is somewhat unusual design. Instead of adding dozens of methods like "getDayOfWeek", "setDayOfWeek", and "addDayOfWeek" for all the calendar fields, the designers of the Calendar class added "get" "set" and "add" methods that take a numeric field identifier as the parameter.

Note that Calendar is nowadays considered a "legacy" class - for new code it's better to use the classes in the java.time package. The modern way to get today's day of the week is:

DayOfWeek dow = LocalDate.now().getDayOfWeek();

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