title: Using Angular date filter how to get day of week from date in MM/DD/YYYY format?
body: <p>Need to get Day i.e. Mon, Tues etc from given date (<code>4/25/2017</code>) which is in <code>MM/DD/YYYY</code> format without using custom filter.</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
      &lt;html&gt;
          &lt;script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.8/angular.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
          &lt;body&gt;
          
              &lt;div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="datCtrl"&gt;
                  &lt;p&gt;Date = {{ today | date:'EEE' }}&lt;/p&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
          
              &lt;script&gt;
                  var app = angular.module('myApp', []);
                  app.controller('datCtrl', function($scope) {
                      $scope.today = '4/25/2017'
                  });
              &lt;/script&gt;
          
              &lt;p&gt;Need to get Day i.e Mon,Tues etc from above date which is in MM/DD/YYYY format without using custom filter. &lt;/p&gt;
          
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      &lt;/html&gt;</code></pre>
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