date:day-name

Returns the full name of the day of the week of a date. If no argument is given, then the current local date/time, as returned by date:date-time is used as the default argument. The result is an English day name: one of 'Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday' or 'Friday'.

day-name($date-time as string?) ➔ string

Arguments

 

$date-time

string?

The input date/time

Result

string

Namespace

http://exslt.org/dates-and-times

Links to specifications

EXSLT Dates and Times Module

Saxon availability

Requires Saxon-PE or Saxon-EE. Available for Java and C/C++ only (not .NET).

See also:

date:day-abbreviation()