dayOfTheWeek()

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

 dayOfTheWeek(timestamp, timeZone) #Output: Number

Examples

Parser expression

Description

Bash
dayOfTheWeek({issue.dueDate},LOCAL)

This example returns day of the week 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 valid timestamp. Usually this value is retrieved from a field (e.g. due date, created date).

timeZone

timezone

The time zone used for the calculation.

Output

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

If you need the day of the week as a text, please see dayOfTheWeekToString().


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