How to get the week day of a date?

I tried to use the following to get the week day of a date without success:

No matter what the date in database is, it will all print out Wednesday. The date was recorded as date("Y/m/d"). And I tried the same script on different servers, still the same.

What's wrong with the script?

 

<?php 

$time = date(l);

echo $time; 

?>

PHP:

The "l" in the parentheses is for the day of the week, Monday - Sunday .

Full database insertion and stuff:

<?php

$time = date(l);

echo "Today is: $time ";

$db_host = "localhost";
$db_user = "username";
$db_pwd = "password";
$db_name = "database";
mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pwd);
mysql_select_db($db_name);

if($time == "Thursday") {
	mysql_query("INSERT INTO time (time) VALUES ('$time')");
		{
		echo "Thursday? Wow, that's a day of the week!";
		}
	}
else {
	mysql_query("INSERT INTO time (time) VALUES ('$time')");
		{

                echo "The date of $time was inserted into the database!";

		}

}

?>

PHP:

 

I already recorded all the date with the format of date("Y/m/d"), now I want to get the week day of the date.

 

the problem is the getdate() read timestamps.
convert the $sDate to timestamp first.

$sDate = strtotime($list['date']); 
// continue with your script

PHP:

it should work now.

This is another way:

$date = '2008/9/24'; // or your $list['date']
$timestamp = strtotime($date); // make it a timestamp
$weekday = date("l",$timestamp); // the weekday
print $weekday;

PHP: