title: How to get the name of a day of the week for a specific date using ActionScript?
body: <p>I'm sure there's a simple method or function out there to do this (at least I'm hoping there is). I want to return the name of a day of the week for a specific date using ActionScript. </p>
  
  <p>For example, if I provide "2/2/2011" as a parameter, it should return "Wednesday". What's the best way to make this happen?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong>
  Thanks to butterbrot's answer and some more digging with the <code>DateFormatter</code>, I've found two solutions to my original problem. While both of them will work, I'm curious to know if anyone can think of a reason why one would be preferred over the other. Any thoughts?</p>