<< toc

Time functions

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weekday

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Return the day of week.

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Syntax

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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

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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

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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

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

Example

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

See also

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datevec.

History

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Version	Description
1.0.0	initial version

Author

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Allan CORNET