weekday

Return the day of week.

Syntax

• number = weekday(D)
• [number, name] = weekday(D)
• [number, name] = weekday(D, form)
• [number, name] = weekday(D, language)
• [number, name] = weekday(D, form, language)

Input argument

• D - Serial date numbers or text representing dates and times (vector, matrix, character vector, cell array of character vectors, string array or character array).
• form - a string: 'short' (default) or 'long'.
• language - a string: 'en_US' (default) or 'local'.

Output argument

• number - array of integers values in the range [1, 7].
• name - character array. if 'local' output uses current local if day name is available as translation.

Description

dayweek returns the day of the week as a number in number and as a string in name.

Example

[DayNumber, DayName] = weekday(datenum('12-21-2012'), 'long', 'en_US')
[DayNumber, DayName] = weekday(datenum('12-21-2012'), 'long', 'local')

See also

datevec.

History

Author

Allan CORNET