Template:Day

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The {{day}} date and time function template changes a full weekday name, a standard three letter weekday abbreviation or a weekday number from 0 to 6, with or without a leading zero, to the standard three letter weekday abbreviation.

Usage

{{day|a full weekday name, a standard three letter weekday abbreviation or a weekday number from 0 to 6, with or without a leading zero}}

or

{{day}} which defaults to local standard three letter weekday abbreviation of OEIS Wiki server

Examples

Examples with valid input

Code	Result
{{day|monday}}	Mon
{{day|Monday}}	Mon
{{day|WEDNESDAY}}	Wed
{{day|tue}}	Tue
{{day|0}}	Sun
{{day|4}}	Thu
{{day|06}}	Sat
{{day|001}}	Mon
{{day}}	Fri

Examples with invalid input

Code	Result
{{day|Hexday}}
{{day|7}}
{{day|-1}}
{{day|6.5}}

Code

<!-- The second column will have its use! For the third column, the leading zeros are ignored. -->

{{#switch: {{lc: {{{1|{{LOCALDAYNAME}}}}} }}
  | sunday=Sun    | sun=Sun | 0=Sun
  | monday=Mon    | mon=Mon | 1=Mon
  | tuesday=Tue   | tue=Tue | 2=Tue
  | wednesday=Wed | wed=Wed | 3=Wed
  | thursday=Thu  | thu=Thu | 4=Thu
  | friday=Fri    | fri=Fri | 5=Fri
  | saturday=Sat  | sat=Sat | 6=Sat
  | {{error| Day error: invalid input}}
}}

See also

• {{daynum}} gives the weekday number (0 to 6) for (Sun to Sat)
• {{day}} gives the standard three letter weekday abbreviation.
• {{fullday}} gives the full weekday name.

• {{monthnum}} gives the month number (padded left with 0 if necessary to get two decimal digits) (01 to 12)
• {{month}} gives the standard three letter month abbreviation.
• {{fullmonth}} gives the full month name.
• {{days in month}} (or {{monthdays}}) gives the number of days in a month (for any year from 1 AD to 10000 AD)

• {{yearday}} returns the day of year from year, month and monthday (for any year from 1 AD to 10000 AD)
• {{ifleapyear}} or {{if leap year}} returns different values depending on whether a given year is a leap year or a common year (for any year from 1 AD to 10000 AD)
• {{is leap year}} predicate function template returns 1 (if true) or 0 (if false) depending on whether a given year is a leap year or a common year (for any year from 1 AD to 10000 AD)
• {{Century}} returns the century for any nonzero (negative or positive) year
• {{Millennium}} returns the millennium for any nonzero (negative or positive) year

• {{to day of CE}} returns the day of CE (Christ Era) from year, month and monthday (for any year from 1 AD to 10000 AD)
• {{from day of CE}} returns year, month and monthday (for any year from 1 AD to 10000 AD) from the day of CE (Christ Era)

• {{date}} for date mathematics (for any year from 1 AD to 10000 AD) (returns the date offset a specified number of days from a given date)
• {{days between}} for date mathematics (for any years from 1 AD to 10000 AD) (returns the number of days between two dates)