dayOfTheWeek()

This function returns the day of the week of any given timestamp.

Syntax
 dayOfTheWeek(timestamp, timeZone) #Output: Number

Examples

Parser expression

Description

Bash
%{dayOfTheWeek({issue.dueDate},RUN_AS_LOCAL)}


This example will return the day part of the issue's due date. 

If the due date was set to April 21st, 2020 00:00 the output would be 3 since this day is a Tuesday.

Additional information

Parameters used in this function

Parameter

Input (data type)

Description

timestamp

number

The parameter must be a valid timestamp. Usually this value is retrieved from a field (e.g. due date, created date).

timeZone

text

The time zone used for the calculation.

Days might depend on the time zone - it might be Sunday on the west coast of the US while at the same time it's already Monday in Australia.

Output

This function returns a number  where Sunday = 1, Monday = 2, ... Saturday = 7.


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