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HTML

<h3>
All of these are wrong!
5/28 is a SATURDAY

</h3>
<div id="dates">
</div>

JavaScript

var jsonString = '["2016-05-28", "2016-05-29", "2016-05-30", "2016-05-31", "2016-05-32", "2016-05-33", "2016-05-34", "2016-05-35", "2016-05-36", "2016-05-37", "2016-05-38", "2016-05-39", "2016-05-40"]';
var jsonResp = JSON.parse(jsonString);

function convertToNiceDate(inputDate)
{
    var days = ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tueday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"];

    var splitString = inputDate.split("-");


    currentDate = new Date(splitString[0], splitString[1], splitString[2]);
    var day = currentDate.getDate();
    var month = currentDate.getMonth();
    var dayOfWeek = days[currentDate.getDay()];
    var dateString = dayOfWeek + ", " + month + "/" + day;
    return dateString;
}


$.each(jsonResp, function(index, value)
{
	$("#dates").append(convertToNiceDate(value) + "<br>");
});